Madame Bovary

'She wanted to die and she wanted to live in Paris.'This is the story of Emma trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor she dreams for a life more like the sentimental novels she reads. In an attempt to break from the drab reality of her provincial life in Normandy Emma takes a lover and disaster soon follows.Greedy delusional and selfish the character of Emma Bovary scandalised readers from the novel's first publication in 1857 yet her magnetism is undeniable. A landmark work in modern realism Madame Bovary vibrates with the inner life of a woman hungry for more.Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world.