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  • Madame Bovary

    The Scandalous Tale of Passion, Desire, and Disillusionment by Gustave Flaubert

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    A woman's heart longs for more than what society allows… Dive into the provocative and emotionally charged world of Emma Bovary, the unforgettable heroine of Gustave Flaubert's timeless masterpiece. ✨ Trapped in a dull provincial marriage, Emma dreams of grand romance, luxury, and escape. But in her pursuit of passion and elegance, she finds herself caught in a spiral of desire, debt, and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Madame Bovary

    Narrated by Jenny Agutter ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 24 min

    Gustave Flaubert’s intimate portrait of Emma Bovary’s passionate yearnings for love and excitement, and his scrutiny of the dull provincial world in which she is trapped, create one of the finest French novels of the 19th century. His deep exploration of Emma’s emotions and motivations takes the reader inside her mind to long and suffer with her. The detailed descriptions of day to day life in ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    "Emma was looking for a reason to live, a reason to die." Emma Rouault is a woman born out of her time. Raised on a diet of sentimental romance novels and dreams of Parisian high society, she marries Charles Bovary—a dull, well-meaning country doctor—only to find herself suffocated by the grey monotony of provincial life. In a desperate bid to find the "ecstasy" she has read about, Emma enters a ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Education

    The Story of a Young Man

    Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie ...
    A fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert’s influential bildungsromanGustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed to fulfill the promise of the Revolution of 1848. Published a few months before the start of the 1870 Franco–Prussian War, it offers both a sweeping panorama of French society over three decades and an ... Read more

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  • Bouvard and Pécuchet

    When two copy clerks inherit a fortune, they embark on a new life as professional dilettantes in the unfinished novel by the author of Madame Bovary.First conceived in 1863 and left unfinished at his death in 1880, Bouvard and Pécuchet was to be Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece. It tells the story of two Parisian copy clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, who become fast friends. When Bouvard ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    A powerful story of longing and dissatisfaction. Emma Bovary dreams of a life filled with passion and luxury, but reality fails to meet her expectations. Her search for fulfillment leads to emotional and personal consequences. The novel explores themes of desire, illusion, and the gap between dreams and reality. Written by Gustave Flaubert. Download now to experience a timeless literary classic. ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Education

    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker**Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Madame Bovary - Bilingual Edition (English / French):

    Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary - Bilingual Edition" presents a masterful exploration of ambition, illusion, and despair through the life of Emma Bovary, a woman imprisoned by her romantic aspirations. Written in a meticulously detailed style that balances narrative precision with rich, psychological insight, this bilingual edition allows readers to traverse both English and French texts, ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

    Translated by Jacques Barzun ...
    Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas—an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France—is as relevant today as ever.Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the “right thinking” swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of ... Read more

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  • Un coeur simple

    "Un coeur simple" est la première nouvelle de Gustave Flaubert publiée dans le livre Trois Contes, paru en 1877. L'histoire de « Un cœur simple » est simplement l'histoire d'une vie obscure, celle d'une pauvre paysanne, dévote mais mystique, dévouée sans exaltation et tendre comme du pain frais. Elle aime successivement un homme, les enfants de sa maîtresse, un neveu, un vieillard dont elle s ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThis collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading, 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. "Emma is bored and wants excitement and makes a complete mess of her life. In the process she destroys the life of her very provincial husband who also happens to be a good man. The story is tragic and at times frustrating but well worth reading."After marrying Charles ... Read more

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