The first thing to say about Madame Bovary is that it's a terrific story. Other comparably great and famous novels aren't, but it is. Everyone should read it. Everyone would read it, given a free ...

Jennifer Jones is the daring Madame Bovary. The character is short on sympathy, being a greedy woman so anxious to better her position in life that sin and crime do not shock her moral values. Jones ...

Of the spilling of ink on “Madame Bovary,” there shall be no end. From Jean-Paul Sartre’s 3,000-page, unfinished biography of Gustave Flaubert — the novel’s neurotic, hermetic author — to Mario Vargas ...