Flaubert was notoriously perfectionist about his writing and claimed to always be searching for le mot juste (the right word)". Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. 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.
a troop of volunteers over at and is available on MP3 download. Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling (1855 - 1898) Listen to this classic French novel about Emma Bovary who tries desperately. His legs, in blue stockings, looked out from beneath yellow trousers, drawn tight by braces, He wore stout, ill-cleaned, hob-nailed boots.Download cover art Download CD case insert Madame Bovary Although he was not broad-shouldered, his short school jacket of green cloth with black buttons must have been tight about the arm-holes, and showed at the opening of the cuffs red wrists accustomed to being bare. His hair was cut square on his forehead like a village chorister’s he looked reliable, but very ill at ease. The ‘new fellow,’ standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly be seen, was a country lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.’ ‘Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care he’ll be in the second. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice. The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around. Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. Two souls adrift on the waves of the Seine. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ‘new fellow,’ not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
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