Gustave Flaubert Audio

In his literary masterpiece, Gustave Flaubert depicts the oppressive atmosphere of bourgeois...

Emma Bovary is not content to be the mere dutiful wife of a French country doctor. She yearns...

Flaubert’s Emma Bovary is an unfeeling, unintelligent woman who needs to dominate her surroundings.

Emma, married to a clumsy country doctor, pursues her voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love, leading to corruption and downfall. An all-time classic.

A gripping chronicle of Emma Bovary's doomed affairs.

The story of a woman who, after marriage, found herself unhappy with rural, genteel existence, longs for love and excitement. Her aspirations and desires lead her in a tragic downward spiral.

The story of a woman who, after marriage, found herself unhappy with rural, genteel existence, longs for love and excitement. Her aspirations and desires lead her in a tragic downward spiral.

Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

Flaubert’s richly detailed account of the historical struggle between Rome and Carthage.

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France.