Loved Madame Bovary. Any suggestions for anything similiar?

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I wondered if anyone could suggest a book/books for anything in a similiar vein?

Vanity fair?

obviously not the same, and English rather than French but a period novel with a female character who's a wrong-un.

not quite the same as it's a graphic novel but based on MB

Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds

How about Wilkie Collins' stuff like 'The woman in white'

Also Thomas Hardy e.g. 'Far from the Madding Crowd'

Or Henry James 'Portrait of a Lady'

"Scarlet & Black" (Le Rouge et Le Noir) by Stendhal

You could try Zola but only if you're in a cheerful mood! - "Nana" and "Therese Raquin" are great

"The Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorn(e) - not sure how you spell his surname

Maupassant's short stories are great too

Oh the foosa I love Posy simmonds and I liked Gemma Bovary!

I second Maupassant's short storis, Zola's Teresa Raquin, Balzac's Eugenie Grandet (anything by Balzac really).
And Anna Karenina, if you haven't read it yet.

Another vote for Therese Raquin!

Therese Raquin and Anna Karenina are both great - well worth a read.

Wilkie Collins and Vanity Fair also pretty fantastic.

I 3rd Therese Raquin, best book EVAH.

Thanks for the suggestions, I have read Collins, Hawthorne and James and loved them. I shall definately give some of the others a try.

Loved Anna Karenina.

There's also a novella called "Mrs Sartoris" by Elke Schmitters (translated from German) which is one of my favourite books.

Slightly more up to date, but Francois Mauriac's Therese Desqueroux?

Moll Flanders? Forever Amber? Both strong female protagonists and historical.

While studying Madame Bovary at Uni I seem to remember The Scarlet Letter was part of the same module on a similar vein- alongside Anna Karenina.

Beware of following Zola as lots of his books are slightly less than cheerful.

Germinal needs you to have a very happy life, for example.

Depressed the out of me...

L'Assoimmoir (sp?) is worse than Germinal - beware

Within the same genre:

Les Liaison Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons). Can't remember the name of the author though, I believe it's Pierre something!

Another vote for Anna Karenina