Madame Bovary — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 10.4 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 10.4 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 69% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
- That's 16% longer than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).
Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for romance listeners — a solid week of commutes at 10.4 hours (estimated).
About the book
Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Fiona Glascott, star of Brooklyn and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Geoffrey Wall. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'. (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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How long is the Madame Bovary audiobook?
Madame Bovary runs about 10.4 hours — our estimate from its 351 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
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Is Madame Bovary worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours — saving 3.5 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Madame Bovary first published?
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert was first published in 1856.