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  • Audiobook

    Madame Bovary

    Narrated by Jenny Agutter ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 24 min

    Gustave Flaubert’s intimate portrait of Emma Bovary’s passionate yearnings for love and excitement, and his scrutiny of the dull provincial world in which she is trapped, create one of the finest French novels of the 19th century. His deep exploration of Emma’s emotions and motivations takes the reader inside her mind to long and suffer with her. The detailed descriptions of day to day life in ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    A Powerful Novel of Desire, Disillusionment, and the Cost of Escaping Reality

    Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary tells the story of Emma Bovary, a woman who hungers for passion, luxury, and adventure far beyond her provincial life. Her longing leads her into a spiral of emotional turmoil, costly choices, and illusions that cannot be sustained.This restored edition preserves the precision, elegance, and psychological depth of Flaubert's groundbreaking prose while offering a ... Read more

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  • Bouvard and Pécuchet

    When two copy clerks inherit a fortune, they embark on a new life as professional dilettantes in the unfinished novel by the author of Madame Bovary.First conceived in 1863 and left unfinished at his death in 1880, Bouvard and Pécuchet was to be Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece. It tells the story of two Parisian copy clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, who become fast friends. When Bouvard ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    "Emma was looking for a reason to live, a reason to die." Emma Rouault is a woman born out of her time. Raised on a diet of sentimental romance novels and dreams of Parisian high society, she marries Charles Bovary—a dull, well-meaning country doctor—only to find herself suffocated by the grey monotony of provincial life. In a desperate bid to find the "ecstasy" she has read about, Emma enters a ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Education

    The Story of a Young Man

    Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie ...
    A fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsromanGustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed to fulfill the promise of the Revolution of 1848. Published a few months before the start of the 1870 Franco–Prussian War, it offers both a sweeping panorama of French society over three decades and an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Bouvard et Pécuchet (English)

    Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880.Although it was conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes ("The Two Woodlice"), and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice (Les Deux Greffiers, "The Two Court Clerks", which appeared in La Revue des Tribunaux in 1841 and which he may have read in 1858), Flaubert did ... Read more

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  • A Simple Soul

    "A Simple Heart", also called Un cour simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm she works on and heads for Pont-l'Éveque where she immediately picks up work in a widow's house as a servant. She is very loyal, and easily lends her ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Education

    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Historical Novel)

    Enriched edition.

    Gustave Flaubert's *The Temptation of Saint Anthony* is a profound exploration of the psychological and spiritual crises faced by one of Christianity's most iconic figures. Marking an innovative departure from conventional narrative forms, Flaubert's literary style employs vivid imagery and lyrical prose, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that immerses the reader in Anthony's internal struggles ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    The Scandalous Tale of Passion, Desire, and Disillusionment by Gustave Flaubert

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    A woman's heart longs for more than what society allows… Dive into the provocative and emotionally charged world of Emma Bovary, the unforgettable heroine of Gustave Flaubert's timeless masterpiece. ✨ Trapped in a dull provincial marriage, Emma dreams of grand romance, luxury, and escape. But in her pursuit of passion and elegance, she finds herself caught in a spiral of desire, debt, and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Madame Bovary

    Narrated by Kate Reading ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, anddirected by Sophie BarthesEmma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into sentimental novels, she finds her fantasies dashed by the tedium ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThis collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading, 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. "Emma is bored and wants excitement and makes a complete mess of her life. In the process she destroys the life of her very provincial husband who also happens to be a good man. The story is tragic and at times frustrating but well worth reading."After marrying Charles ... Read more

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