Madame Bovary (Version 2)
Chapter 1 of 35 Part I, Chapter 1
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- Running time
- 12 h 33 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Peter Dann
- Translated by
- Eleanor Marx Aveling
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About this recording
Written over a century and a half ago, Madame Bovary is still an extraordinarily fresh, exciting and shockingly frank novel, at once an acute psychological study of a woman drawn into adultery through circumstances we can partly understand, and a sharply-observed comedy that offers a fascinating glimpse of the social and cultural divisions running through French provincial society in the mid nineteenth century. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. (Summary by Peter Dann)
