"When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect.
Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
In addition to Madame Bovary, this volume collects Flaubert's four other novels: Salammbo, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, A Sentimental Education, and Bouvard and Pecuchet.