Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Author(s): Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx Aveling
Genre(s): Family Life, Published 1800 -1900
Narrators: Peter Dann
Number of Chapters: 35
Length: 12 hours and 33 minutes
Language: English
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. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. (Summary by Peter Dann)