Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province, couramment abrégé en Madame Bovary, est un roman de Gustave Flaubert paru en 1857 chez Michel Lévy frères, après une préparution en 1856 dans la Revue de Paris. Il s'agit d'une œuvre majeure de la littérature française et mondiale. L'histoire est celle de l'épouse d'un médecin de province, Emma Bovary, qui lie des relations adultères et vit au-dessus de ses moyens, essayant ainsi d'éviter l’ennui, la banalité et la médiocrité de la vie provinciale.
Madame Bovary. (2021, May 26). In wikipedia. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary
Thérèse Raquin [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃] is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame. The novel's adultery and murder were considered scandalous and famously described as "putrid" in a review in the newspaper Le Figaro. Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt, who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Thérèse's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric and when the opportunity arises, Thérèse enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent.
Thérèse Raquin. (2021, June 3). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Raquin
I loved this book, and it's full of scandal, murder, and betrayal! It's gripping throughout and so if you ever feel at all bored, this novel will provide enough excitement to last you for days, so get reading!
Noah
