Madame Bovary

Name: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert · Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

English · 1857 · Fiction

Flaubert's novel about a provincial doctor's wife whose romantic longings clash with ordinary life, read for its exacting style and realist method.

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Dedication
Part I
Chapter IWe were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a “new…
Chapter IIOne night towards eleven o’clock they were awakened by the noise of a…
Chapter IIIOne morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his…
Chapter IVThe guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises…
Chapter VThe brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the…
Chapter VIShe had read Paul and Virginia, and she had dreamed of the little…
Chapter VIIShe thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time…
Chapter VIIIThe château, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting…
Chapter IXOften when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the…
Part II
Chapter IYonville-l’Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin Abbey of which not…
Chapter IIEmma got out first, then Félicité, Monsieur Lheureux, and a nurse…
Chapter IIIThe next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place.…
Chapter IVWhen the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the…
Chapter VIt was a Sunday in February, an afternoon when the snow was falling.
Chapter VIOne evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had…
Chapter VIIThe next day was a dreary one for Emma. Everything seemed to her…
Chapter VIIIAt last it came, the famous agricultural show. On the morning of the…
Chapter IXSix weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he…
Chapter XGradually Rodolphe’s fears took possession of her. At first, love had…
Chapter XIHe had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing clubfoot…
Chapter XIIThey began to love one another again. Often, even in the middle of…
Chapter XIIINo sooner was Rodolphe at home than he sat down quickly at his bureau…
Chapter XIVTo begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for…
Chapter XVThe crowd was waiting against the wall, symmetrically enclosed…
Part III
Chapter IMonsieur Léon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the…
Chapter IIOn reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the…
Chapter IIIThey were three full, exquisite days—a true honeymoon. They were at…
Chapter IVLéon soon put on an air of superiority before his comrades, avoided…
Chapter VShe went on Thursdays. She got up and dressed silently, in order not…
Chapter VIDuring the journeys he made to see her, Léon had often dined at the…
Chapter VIIShe was stoical the next day when Maître Hareng, the bailiff, with…
Chapter VIIIShe asked herself as she walked along, “What am I going to say? How…
Chapter IXThere is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so…
Chapter XHe had only received the chemist’s letter thirty-six hours after the…
Chapter XIThe next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her…

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Madame Bovary

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