Madame Bovary Audiobook (free download)

Set amid the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, "Madame Bovary" is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman’s gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity. Neither Emma, nor her lovers, nor Homais, the man of science, escapes the author’s searing castigation, and it is the book’s final profound irony that only Charles, Emma’s oxlike, eternally deceived husband, emerges with a measure of human grace through his stubborn and selfless love.

This week, the audio book version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary has made it into the top 50 bestsellers in the Classics category. You can legally download or stream this audio book and listen to it for free at Spotify, Deezer, and in high quality at Audible.