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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
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Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and the consequences are devastating.

Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

©2011 Talking Classics (P)2011 De Agostini UK 2010 Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction
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After listening to the audio book I wanted to see the written text and I was surprised to see that there was a difference between the audio version and the written version...

This is not the full book but a summary! 😐

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A wonderful abridged version of this classic novel. The Talking Classics series really did do excellent work. The narration is great. Highly recommended.

Excellent story

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