Madame Bovary (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx-Aveling - translator

Narrated by: Michael Page

Emma Bovary, daughter of an uneducated farmer and wife of a dull doctor in northern France, harbors a passion for everything beyond her grasp - sophistication, romance, love, and deliverance from her banal provincial life. Motivated by the primal, idealized, and vain, she seeks adventure. And with each new endeavor, Emma sets for herself an inevitable and inescapable trap.

Condemned as an affront to public morals, Madame Bovary’s obscenity trial made it notorious. Today, Emma stands as one of fiction’s most famous figures, and the novel itself, among the most pioneering and influential in world literature.

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Revised edition: Previously published as Madame Bovary, this edition of Madame Bovary (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Madame Bovary's Tragic Life

I have wanted to read this novel or some time. First of all, I enjoyed the story, the language and the overall descriptions contemporary with the times. This novel reminded me of The Awakening because of Madame Bovary's lack of love for her husband and seeking prohibited love from other men. She eventually causes her and her family to become bankrupt due to her spending habits. She had done the spending without the knowledge of her husband. When she was unable to pay er debts she called upon her so-called friends and lovers to no avail. Feeling that she had no other options, she poisoned herself and died. The irony of the story is that the same husband that she did not love and schemed behind his back with other men, grieved himself to death because of his love for her. I recommend this book. It is a very interesting read and like prostitution, the tragedy of Madame Bovary still endures to this very day. WM SC

A well written, descriptive, philosophical take.

Well worth the listen to this classic work. A stunning take about the downsides of romanticising our life's desires without appreciating what we have, set alongside the constraints of being a woman and having desires.

Masterpiece

It's classic on the level....well, God? You must read this book. Total masterpiece!!! I read it in conjunction with Zola's Germinal....Another masterpiece. Maybe I should have majored in French literature. I would enjoyed it even more as a teenager. Reading it in tandem with another masterpiece- Anna Karenina- would be cool. Everyone must read these masterpieces...as teenagers, right? Oh here is another book for teens- Wings of the Dove by Henry James (another masterpiece). Yes, I read it as a teenager. I loved every words of it- it transformed my life (together with Maugham's Theater and Tolstoy''s Resurrection).

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Horrible Narration

Can't understand the narrator. Very disappointed. Returning the audio book. Will be requesting credit back.

boring and waste of time

who cares about an shallow selfish awful ungrateful women. no character or story line in the story to keep me interested. never listened to not read a story where everything is described. there must be a couple paragraphs of describing every man's jacket at the wedding. laughing at how many jackets have been described, it continues beyond belief. this over-description is continual throughout the story. I looked up why this book is considered so highly as I couldn't get it. some days that it was boring on purpose to give the feeling of how she was bored. good excuse but not. some wrote the author wanted to show the bad characteristics of a certain class of people. hey sign me up for another, no way. waste of time