Gustave Flaubert Audio Books

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.

After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô.

In this story, of a young man's romantic attachment to an older woman, the modern English listener can appreciate the accuracy, the artistry and the insight which Flaubert reconstructed in one masterpiece....

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity....