![]() He’ll find the perfect detail or the perfect metaphor. Flaubert has the gift of the great sentence (even in translation) that he’s famous for. It casts the kind of light that makes you think you’ve spent more direct time on it than you have. It’s also because it’s so entwined in other literature and art that you feel you know it already. That’s probably because I have read Anna Karenina (and to a lesser extent Chekhov’s “Lady with a Dog”), the other great adulterous novel of the mid-19th century, and I have also read Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart” (in French, no less, thank you Madames Nichols et Bork). I think I thought I’d read Bovary a long time ago. There are a couple of minor editing mistakes in this audio version - two or three times we'd have a sentence repeated - but she brings a combination of elegance and clarity that really adds to the experience. What does Juliet Stevenson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? so to summarize: it's good to have this book in your repertoire, but if you are looking for an easy-read (easy-listening in this case) you might not find what you are looking for. thirdly, the narrator, is fabulous! the story came alive, and i found myself liking or disliking the characters as Mrs. Secondly, the novel has all the traits a classic novel has: too many characters, too detailed of a story, long period of time, you can really picture and vividly imagine the surroundings down to the petal color of the daisies.so it's a bit tedious at points, not to mention a tiny bit boring, long and over-bearing, but again, it's basics, so you must go thru it, and it's not that bad once you see the beauty in it. why? because if you are a true literary buff - you need to know your basics - and this novel (along with: crime and punishment, portrait of a lady, father guiro and such) is what it is. Firstly, it's one of those books that you simply must read in your life.
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