Thats the main reason Madame Bovary doesnt work very well: It simultaneously has too much (of Emmas caddish lovers) and not enough (of the usurious merchant who drives her into debt). (Summary by Peter Dann)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . Even at two hours, the film feels like things had to be cut out of the original story, with parts of the plot seemingly arising out of nowhere. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. Glenda Jackson hits the mark in this superb narration of Flauberts classic novel. LibriVox recording of Madame Bovary (Version 2) by Gustave Flaubert.
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