Madame Bovary - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Gustave Flaubert, Imogen Stubbs (Narrator) Bored and unhappy in a lifeless marriage, Emma Bovary yearns to escape from the dull circumstances of provincial life. Flaubert’s powerful, deeply moving examination of the moral degeneration of a middle-class Frenchwoman is universally regarded as one of the landmarks of 19th-century fiction. — Read by Imogen Stubbs. Abridged. 4 audio disc... more »s (approximately 286 min.)« less