Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert audiobook.

Genre: drama

In provincial 19th-century France, Emma Bovary believes life should feel like the romances she devours: sweeping passions, refined luxury, and constant excitement. When she marries Charles Bovary, a well-meaning country doctor devoted to his new wife, Emma expects her dreams to finally begin. Instead she finds herself trapped by routine, small-town gossip, and the slow disappointments of a marriage built on affection rather than ardor. Restless and hungry for glamour, Emma reaches beyond her means and her station, chasing admiration and intensity wherever she thinks it can be found. As her desires collide with the rigid codes of her community, a web of temptation, secrecy, and escalating debts tightens around the Bovary household. Flaubert's landmark novel is both intimate and unsparing: a portrait of a woman at war with her own fantasies, and a sharp critique of the social pressures, consumer cravings, and moral hypocrisies that shape her choices. With psychological precision and vivid detail, Madame Bovary follows Emma's quest for a larger life as the consequences of her longing begin to close in.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:21:43) Chapter 02

(00:40:02) Chapter 03

(00:52:42) Chapter 04

(01:05:25) Chapter 05

(01:14:47) Chapter 06

(01:28:35) Chapter 07

(01:44:46) Chapter 08

(02:09:03) Chapter 09

(02:37:05) Chapter 10

(02:58:15) Chapter 11

(03:12:22) Chapter 12

(03:37:22) Chapter 13

(03:46:47) Chapter 14

(04:06:23) Chapter 15

(04:31:03) Chapter 16

(04:49:18) Chapter 17

(05:41:26) Chapter 18

(06:02:36) Chapter 19

(06:22:07) Chapter 20

(06:51:39) Chapter 21

(07:22:31) Chapter 22

(07:44:59) Chapter 23

(08:09:40) Chapter 24

(08:30:04) Chapter 25

(09:03:32) Chapter 26

(09:24:53) Chapter 27

(09:30:38) Chapter 28

(09:37:17) Chapter 29

(10:13:13) Chapter 30

(10:49:58) Chapter 31

(11:19:28) Chapter 32

(12:05:21) Chapter 33

(12:26:31) Chapter 34

(12:38:58) Chapter 35

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