Madame Bovary, often ranked among the greatest novels of all time, is Flaubertâs first novel, and considered to be both his masterpiece and one of the most influential works in literary history, with authors from Henry James to Proust to Nabokov heaping it with praise. Standard Ebooksġ16,539 words (7 hours 4 minutes) with a reading ease of 69.82 (fairly easy) Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Jones and Minnelli are at their best.Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. ![]() This is a very good film for a tearjerker. Miklos Rozsa contributed a fine score, with especially notable music for the ball scene. Louis Jourdan is just about perfect as Emma's seducer who literally sweeps her off her feet. ![]() Van Heflin is good if overemphatic and too American as Emma's husband. She at least deserved a Best Actress nomination from the Academy. She is marvelously subtle as a woman who switches from role to role in her fantasy life, and doesn't let reality intrude until it's too late. She hits all the right notes as a girl who can't/doesn't separate fantasy from reality. After the two marry, they go to the village in Normandy where Charles lives. Bovary (Heflin) comes to treat her fathers' broken leg, she sees him as her Prince Charming and falls in love with him. She grows up believing and fantasizing about love and romance, and that they happen in real life as in fiction. She grows up on an isolated farm, and is further isolated by her convent education. After the prosecution finishes its' case, Flaubert answers his answer frames a flashback to Emma Bovary's (Jones) story. ![]() Film opens at Flaubert's (Mason) 1857 trial for obscenity in France.
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