Madame Bovary LOCATION_B_NF The book also takes an

The book also takes an intimate look at what he was like as a husband

and torn out to be given as gifts

too-gooey brownies and greasy and clumpy buttercream frosting

look at her high-powered job

Madame Bovary LOCATION_B_NF The book also takes anCastigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial manners. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction.