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Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis - translator
Narrated by: Claire Bloom
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Set amid the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity.

Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escape the author's searing castigation, and it is the book's final profound irony that only Charles, Emma's oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love.

©1992 Mildred Marmur (P)1992 Penguin HighBridge Audio Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction Romance French Women

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"Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed; undoubtedly the most beautifully written novel; a book that invites superlatives; the most important novel of the century." (Frank O'Connor)
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I enjoyed this and the performance is good although sometimes a bit rushed perhaps. My main issue is that it says on audible that this is the version translated by Lydia Davis but the audio seems to disagree, mentioning a different translator. For someone like me, who is interested in her work, that’s rather annoying.

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