Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel “Madame Bovary” is no stranger to the big screen, as the 1865 book (impressively enough, it was Flaubert’s debut novel) has been translated to film at least seven ...

Reading Madame Bovary for the first time was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life - at least up to that point. I was a very young woman - not even eighteen. I was au pair in the French ...

It would seem unlikely that a story about a 19th century young French woman escaping her marriage and tedious provincial life by embarking on scandalous affairs would have much appeal to 21st century ...

There’s a line from Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 novel “Madame Bovary” that reads, “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.” Mia Wasikowska paid no heed to this warning. The actress ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gustave Flaubert’s great novel Madame Bovary was published in France in 1857, after a notorious obscenity trial, but ...

I have spent the last three years translating Flaubert's Madame Bovary into English. When I tell people this, there are two reactions: the first is a sympathetic groan, the second a question: "What's ...

Shock horror: bored doctor's wife becomes a Bunny Girl at the age of 154. Playboy magazine's literary "Playmate of the Month" is Madame Bovary, the naughty doctor's wife from a small town in Normandy ...