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"Madame Bovary", Flaubert’s first published novel, is his greatest and a masterpiece of Universal literature. Emma Bovary has become one of the most famous characters in world literature, and critics continue to debate and interpret her life, which, in its depiction of the conflict between idealism and reality, remains every bit as relevant today as it did when first published.
The centre of the novel is the character Emma Bovary, but the French author Gustave Flaubert also emphasised his social critic towards the life in French provinces in the 19th century. The themes of the novel are marriage and adultery.
By characterising his characters, Flaubert made a new concept called bovarism defined as people’s tendency to consider themselves different than they actually are and believe, like Emma, that they are made for another destiny.
The novel is divided into three parts whose limits are the crisis of the main character.
"Madame Bovary" tells the story of a marriage that ends in tragedy. Charles Bovary, a good-hearted but dull and unambitious doctor with a meagre practice, marries Emma, a beautiful farm girl raised in a convent. Although she anticipates marriage as a life of adventure, she soon finds that her only excitement derives from the flights of fancy she takes while reading sentimental romantic novels. She grows increasingly bored and unhappy with her middle-class existence, and even the birth of their daughter, Berthe, brings Emma little joy.
Grasping for idealised intimacy, Emma begins to act out her romantic fantasies and embarks on an ultimately disastrous love affair with Rodolphe, a local landowner. She makes enthusiastic plans for them to run away together, but Rodolphe has grown tired of her...
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics, Romance
Length13 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 8, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PART 1
20Chapter Nine
2Chapter One
21Chapter Ten
3Chapter Two
22Chapter Eleven
4Chapter Three
23Chapter Twelve
5Chapter Four
24Chapter Thirteen
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6Chapter Five
25Chapter Fourteen
7Chapter Six
26Chapter Fifteen
8Chapter Seven
27PART 3
9Chapter Eight
28Chapter One
10Chapter Nine
29Chapter Two
11PART 2
30Chapter Three
12Chapter One
31Chapter Four
13Chapter Two
32Chapter Five
14Chapter Three
33Chapter Six
15Chapter Four
34Chapter Seven
16Chapter Five
35Chapter Eight
17Chapter Six
36Chapter Nine
18Chapter Seven
37Chapter Ten
19Chapter Eight
38Chapter Eleven
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