A review by maximum_moxie
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

4.0

Say what you will about the conclusions he draws and where his sympathies lie, but Flaubert is one of the few male writers who really captures the ideas and idle fancies of a woman. Of course, this isn't to say all women are like Emma--willing to throw away everything for fantasy. But all of us have thought like her at some point, and a man expressing female thought accurately is a rarer thing indeed.