One character in this novel is a tax-collector who accidentally splashes everyone in the eyes while demonstrating the correct way to open a cider bottle, Binet.
One character in this novel is a tax-collector who accidentally splashes everyone in the eyes while demonstrating the correct way to open a cider bottle, Binet. The protagonist of this novel becomes ill after reading a letter that was delivered at the bottom of a basket of apricots. A club-footed character in this novel has to have his foot amputated after another character botches an operation performed at the urging of Homais. The title character meets her husband when he visits her father's farm to set his broken leg, and she later conducts affairs with the young student LÃ©on and the landlord Rodolphe.  For ten points, name this novel by Gustave Flaubert about Charles' dissatisfied wife, Emma.
One character in this novel is a tax-collector who accidentally splashes everyone in the eyes while demonstrating the correct way to open a cider bottle, Binet.
Madame Bovary