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Madame Bovary
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
- Publisher
- Alcazar AudioWorks
- Publish Date
- 20 February 2014
- Run Time
- 12 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy, provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering, corruption, and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, this classic is still revered today as one of the finest novels of English literature.
Critics Review
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“Madame Bovary is like the railroad stations erected in its epoch: graceful, even floral, but cast of iron.”
New York Times Book Review
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“Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment.”
Henry James
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“Flaubert established for good or ill, what most readers think of as modern realist narration, and his influence is almost too familiar to be visible.”
James Wood, New York Times bestselling author of How Fiction Works
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“It still astonishes. If one were to ask, ‘World, which is the most perfect novel ever written?’ the world would immediately answer: Madame Bovary.”
Washington Post Book World
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“A masterpiece of realism.”
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Details
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
- Narrator
- Bobbie Frohman, various narrators
- Duration
- 12 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 February 2014
- ISBN
- 9781483011288
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Alcazar AudioWorks
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy, provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering, corruption, and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, this classic is still revered today as one of the finest novels of English literature.
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