![]() After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. ![]() The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The titular character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Mœurs de province) is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. ![]() (Summary by Peter Dann)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Bovary (full French title: Madame Bovary. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. LibriVox recording of Madame Bovary (Version 2) by Gustave Flaubert.
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