Read by Donada Peters

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism, Madame
Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on
any pilgrimage through modern literature. Gustave Flaubert's legendary style,
his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, and
his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of
telling details shine throughout this marvelous work.

Madame Bovary scandalized audiences when it was first published in 1857. And
the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work
that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells
the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries
Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion
that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is
an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the
romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she
takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.
And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and
a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions.

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