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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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  • 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 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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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    What happens when romantic dreams collide with the limitations of ordinary life? Discover Gustave Flaubert's groundbreaking masterpiece, Madame Bovary, a powerful novel about desire, dissatisfaction, social expectations, and the pursuit of an imagined ideal. Emma Bovary longs for passion, luxury, and a life beyond the routines of provincial society. Dissatisfied with her marriage and surroundings, ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    A woman longing for passion. A life that feels too small. A dream that leads her where she never meant to go. Emma Bovary marries a kind but ordinary doctor, hoping for romance, beauty, and excitement. Instead, she finds herself trapped in routine and aching for more. As she pursues love, luxury, and escape, her desires turn into dangerous illusions—drawing her deeper into secrets, debt, and ... 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

  • Madame Bovary

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker**Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Geoffrey Wall ...
    'A masterpiece' Julian BarnesFlaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Un coeur simple

    "Un coeur simple" est la première nouvelle de Gustave Flaubert publiée dans le livre Trois Contes, paru en 1877. L'histoire de « Un cœur simple » est simplement l'histoire d'une vie obscure, celle d'une pauvre paysanne, dévote mais mystique, dévouée sans exaltation et tendre comme du pain frais. Elle aime successivement un homme, les enfants de sa maîtresse, un neveu, un vieillard dont elle s ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 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

  • Sentimental Education

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds himself distracted by the equally romantic appeal of political action in the turbulent years ... Read more

    $11.39 USD