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Madame Bovary

First published: 1857
Pages: 303

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Part I, Chapter One
21:39
Part I, Chapter Two
18:16
Part I, Chapter Three
12:38
Part I, Chapter Four
12:40
Part I, Chapter Five
9:20
Part I, Chapter Six
13:45
Part I, Chapter Seven
16:09
Part I, Chapter Eight
24:13
Part I, Chapter Nine
27:58
Part II, Chapter One
21:10
Part II, Chapter Two
14:07
Part II, Chapter Three
24:56
Part II, Chapter Four
9:24
Part II, Chapter Five
19:33
Part II, Chapter Six
24:40
Part II, Chapter Seven
18:12
Part II, Chapter Eight
52:01
Part II, Chapter Nine
21:06
Part II, Chapter Ten
19:28
Part II, Chapter Eleven
29:28
Part II, Chapter Twelve
30:48
Part II, Chapter Thirteen
22:25
Part II, Chapter Fourteen
24:37
Part II, Chapter Fifteen
20:20
Part III, Chapter One
33:23
Part III, Chapter Two
21:18
Part III, Chapter Three
5:44
Part III, Chapter Four
6:37
Part III, Chapter Five
35:51
Part III, Chapter Six
36:40
Part III, Chapter Seven
29:25
Part III, Chapter Eight
45:46
Part III, Chapter Nine
21:07
Part III, Chapter Ten
12:25
Part III, Chapter Eleven
21:58

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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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Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary put its author in a Paris courtroom. Serialised in the Revue de Paris in 1856, the novel earned Gustave Flaubert a prosecution for offending public morals and religion; he was acquitted in February 1857 and the book sold hard on the scandal.