Very few novels
have created as much outrage and adoration as Madam Bovary. This unabridged audio book, read by the aclaimed actress Julie Christie tells of Emma Bovary’s attempts to escape the maddening boredom of being
married to the wrong man, in the wrong town, with the wrong picture of
her life via a series of very realistically described adulterous
affairs.
This ensured that author Gustave Flaubert had practically the whole of
France involved in the hullabaloo that greeted the novel’s publication
in 1856. He was prosecuted for it (unsuccessfully), and then wildly
fêted for it and his establishment as one of the most popular of
literary geniuses is based on it. | 
