![]() ![]() ![]() The Marquis, to amuse the young woman, took her to see the stables.Ībove the basket-shaped racks porcelain slabs bore the names of the horses in black letters. The orangery, which was at the other end, led by a covered way to the outhouses of the chateau. Next, Mademoiselle d’Andervilliers collected some pieces of roll in a small basket to take them to the swans on the ornamental waters, and they went to walk in the hot-houses, where strange plants, bristling with hairs, rose in pyramids under hanging vases, whence, as from over-filled nests of serpents, fell long green cords interlacing. The repast lasted ten minutes no liqueurs were served, which astonished the doctor. There were a great many people to luncheon. She undressed, and cowered down between the sheets against Charles, who was asleep. ![]() (Summary by Peter Dann)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit, have penetrated, blended with them. She was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx. This translation is by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, a prominent social activist and literary translator. 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. LibriVox recording of Madame Bovary (Version 2) by Gustave Flaubert. ![]()
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