Track | Chapter | Length |
01 | Chapter 01 | 9:31 |
02 | Chapter 02 | 14:54 |
03 | Chapter 03 | 12:13 |
04 | Chapter 4 | 15:20 |
05 | Chapter 05 | 12:16 |
06 | Chapter 06 | 16:04 |
07 | Chapter 07 | 10:07 |
08 | Chapter 08 | 12:40 |
09 | Chapter 09 | 13:07 |
10 | Chapter 10 | 10:35 |
11 | Chapter 11 | 11:36 |
12 | Chapter 12 | 12:19 |
13 | Chapter 13 | 4:28 |
14 | Chapter 14 | 20:22 |
15 | Chapter 15 | 13:23 |
16 | Chapter 16 | 13:49 |
17 | Chapter 17 | 8:44 |
18 | Chapter 18 | 14:21 |
19 | Chapter 19 | 8:52 |
20 | Chapter 20 | 12:50 |
21 | Chapter 21 | 9:29 |
22 | Chapter 22 | 11:19 |
23 | Chapter 23 | 12:35 |
24 | Chapter 24 | 13:10 |
25 | Chapter 25 | 14:00 |
26 | Chapter 26 | 9:13 |
27 | Chapter 27 | 11:12 |
28 | Chapter 28 | 13:22 |
29 | Chapter 29 | 13:47 |
30 | Chapter 30 | 23:33 |
31 | Chapter 31 | 8:47 |
32 | Chapter 32 | 15:36 |
33 | Chapter 33 | 8:40 |
34 | Chapter 34 | 11:25 |
35 | Chapter 35 | 15:44 |
Notes
Running Time: 12 hours 55 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: Stav Nisser
Meta Coordinator: Kirsten Ferreri
Artwork
Cover: Color engraving by Eugène Decisy of frontispiece illustration by Charles Léandre for Madame Bovary, 1931.
Inset: Title page of the first edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (Lévy, Paris, 1857).
Inset: Gustave Flaubert. Porträt von Nadar (1820 - 1910) Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5 (1905), Französische Literaturgeschichte, Seite 71.
Insert: Color engraving by Eugène Decisy of "Emma en travesti au bal", illustration by Charles Léandre for Madame Bovary, page 322, 1931.
Recordings
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Madame Bovary is considered by many as the first major novel in the style of literary realism and one of the most influential. It tells the story of Emma Bovary, wife of a simple country doctor, who lives beyond her means and has adulterous affairs to escape her bored and banal provincial existence. Emma is a pretty girl, a farmer’s daughter with a convent education and a yearning for romance and luxury inspired by popular novels. Not surprisingly, her affairs run from infatuation to disappointment, and her consolation is indulgence in luxury goods bought on credit from a wily merchant, who ultimately calls in his loan, with drastic consequences. While the story is quite simple, the artistry is in the acute depiction of the mundane details of common life, the customs of the rural French, and the hidden patterns that mature into destiny. The realism of the style exposes Emma’s romantic fantasies as illusions that crumble in the implacable grip of real life; as such, the book can be seen as a turning point away from romanticism to the realism that takes shape in the latter 19th century. Madame Bovary created a scandal when it was serialized in La Revue de Paris in the fall of 1856. Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity in January1857 and acquitted the following month. The resulting notoriety made the book a bestseller when it was published in April of that year. It is regarded as one of the greatest of novels and often described as a “perfect” work of fiction.
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0683422134593 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991764 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Box |
Author | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
Translator | Eleanor Marx Aveling (1855 - 1898) |
Year | 1856 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 13 hours |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
Madame Bovary
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Product Code: DB-1053
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