Madame Bovary: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Madame Bovary, credited to Gustave Flaubert, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. 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. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was notoriously perfectionist about his writing and claimed to always be searching for le mot juste (the right word)". (Summary from Wikipedia).

Recording facts

• Recording title: Madame Bovary
• Author credits: Gustave Flaubert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 12:59:07

Catalogue topics

• french
• classic
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 01 - Part I, Chapter One — 21:40
2. 02 - Part I, Chapter Two — 18:16
3. 03 - Part I, Chapter Three — 12:39
4. 04 - Part I, Chapter Four — 12:41
5. 05 - Part I, Chapter Five — 9:21
6. 06 - Part I, Chapter Six — 13:46
7. 07 - Part I, Chapter Seven — 16:09
8. 08 - Part I, Chapter Eight — 24:14
9. 09 - Part I, Chapter Nine — 27:58
10. 10 - Part II, Chapter One — 21:10
11. 11 - Part II, Chapter Two — 14:08
12. 12 - Part II, Chapter Three — 24:56
13. 13 - Part II, Chapter Four — 9:24
14. 14 - Part II, Chapter Five — 19:33
15. 15 - Part II, Chapter Six — 24:41
16. 16 - Part II, Chapter Seven — 18:13
17. 17 - Part II, Chapter Eight — 52:01
18. 18 - Part II, Chapter Nine — 21:07
19. 19 - Part II, Chapter Ten — 19:28
20. 20 - Part II, Chapter Eleven — 29:28
21. 21 - Part II, Chapter Twelve — 30:48
22. 22 - Part II, Chapter Thirteen — 22:25
23. 23 - Part II, Chapter Fourteen — 24:37
24. 24 - Part II, Chapter Fifteen — 20:21

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