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Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 11h 40m
Emma Bovary is a sensuous, sentimental young woman whose romantic ideals make her dissatisfied with her humdrum married life. Attempting to escape into an exciting world of passion and dreams, she drifts into sordid affairs with Rodolphe Boulanger and L‚on Dupuis. The first of these lovers, an older man, dominates the affair, while the second, inex...
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Ronald Pickup
Duration 15h 20m
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 romantic fantasy, voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are d...
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 15h 22m
Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself....
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Author Gustave Flaubert
Narrator Jenny Agutter
Duration 2h 24m
Madame Bovary is one of Europe's most famous pieces of literature causing a huge scandal when first published in 1856 as a serial in La Revue de Paris and then, after being acquitted at a trial, as a book in 1857. Ahead of its time, Madame Bovary shocked its readers when first published, with its candid themes of adultery and betrayal. Emma Bovary...
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