About this audiobook
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Type: Fiction
Language: French
Literary tradition: France
Duration: 13h 12m
Narrator: Nadine Eckert-Boulet
Source: LibriVox / Internet Archive
This public-domain audiobook is provided for free listening.
About the Story
Emma Bovary longs for romance, luxury, and a life more exciting than her provincial marriage can offer. Her attempts to escape dissatisfaction through love and spending steadily deepen the distance between dream and reality.
Gustave Flaubert's precise, ironic novel changed the course of modern realism. Madame Bovary examines desire, boredom, consumer fantasy, and the cost of refusing to see life clearly.
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