Madame Bovary

Trapped in a marriage that offers no passion and a provincial life that feels unbearably small, Emma Bovary longs for something more than what she has. Her search for romance and a grander existence sets her on a path of increasingly reckless choices, each one pulling her further from the life she imagined and closer to ruin. Flaubert's novel is an unflinching look at desire, disappointment and the cost of chasing an ideal that was never within reach.