Madame Bovary
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary, a plodding country doctor, expecting the grand passions she absorbed from sentimental novels. Provincial life gives her none of it. Bored and restless, she pursues romance through two affairs and a spree of debt her husband never suspects, chasing an ideal that reality keeps refusing to supply. Flaubert’s 1857 novel is a founding work of literary realism, built from patient, exact observation and famously careful sentences. Its frank treatment of adultery led to an obscenity trial, which Flaubert won, and the book has been read ever since as both a portrait of one woman’s ruin and a critique of the illusions a whole society sells itself. Available here as a free PDF and EPUB edition.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Part I, Chapter One | 21:39 | |
| 2 | Part I, Chapter Two | 18:16 | |
| 3 | Part I, Chapter Three | 12:38 | |
| 4 | Part I, Chapter Four | 12:40 | |
| 5 | Part I, Chapter Five | 9:20 | |
| 6 | Part I, Chapter Six | 13:45 | |
| 7 | Part I, Chapter Seven | 16:09 | |
| 8 | Part I, Chapter Eight | 24:13 | |
| 9 | Part I, Chapter Nine | 27:58 | |
| 10 | Part II, Chapter One | 21:10 | |
| 11 | Part II, Chapter Two | 14:07 | |
| 12 | Part II, Chapter Three | 24:56 | |
| 13 | Part II, Chapter Four | 9:24 | |
| 14 | Part II, Chapter Five | 19:33 | |
| 15 | Part II, Chapter Six | 24:40 | |
| 16 | Part II, Chapter Seven | 18:12 | |
| 17 | Part II, Chapter Eight | 52:01 | |
| 18 | Part II, Chapter Nine | 21:06 | |
| 19 | Part II, Chapter Ten | 19:28 | |
| 20 | Part II, Chapter Eleven | 29:28 | |
| 21 | Part II, Chapter Twelve | 30:48 | |
| 22 | Part II, Chapter Thirteen | 22:25 | |
| 23 | Part II, Chapter Fourteen | 24:37 | |
| 24 | Part II, Chapter Fifteen | 20:20 | |
| 25 | Part III, Chapter One | 33:23 | |
| 26 | Part III, Chapter Two | 21:18 | |
| 27 | Part III, Chapter Three | 5:44 | |
| 28 | Part III, Chapter Four | 6:37 | |
| 29 | Part III, Chapter Five | 35:51 | |
| 30 | Part III, Chapter Six | 36:40 | |
| 31 | Part III, Chapter Seven | 29:25 | |
| 32 | Part III, Chapter Eight | 45:46 | |
| 33 | Part III, Chapter Nine | 21:07 | |
| 34 | Part III, Chapter Ten | 12:25 | |
| 35 | Part III, Chapter Eleven | 21:58 |
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