![]() ![]() This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature - Emma Bovary. "Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel… a book that invites superlatives… the most important novel of the century." -Frank O’Connor "‘Madame Bovary’ show Flaubert as the pioneer of our age, the portraitist and philosopher of the modern world." -Émile Zola "Stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do." -Vladimir Nabokov "From the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is ‘Madame Bovary’ by Flaubert." -Giorgio de Chirico "Ever since ‘Madame Bovary’, the art of the novel has been considered equal to the art of poetry." -Milan Kundera "‘Madame Bovary’ has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone: it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." -Henry James ![]()
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