# Madame Bovary (Version 2)

An audiobook by Gustave Flaubert, read by LibriVox volunteers (12 h 33 min, English).

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)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/17229)
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