Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is 114,827 words — about 7h 39m at 250 words per minute, across 25 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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Permit me to inscribe your name at the head of this book, and above its dedication; for it is to you, before all, that I owe its publication. Reading over your magnificent defence, my work has acquired for myself, as it were, an unexpected authority.…
Details
- AuthorGustave Flaubert
- SourceProject Gutenberg #2413
- Length114,827 words · 7h 39m of reading
- Chapters25
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
25 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- 02Chapter One
- 03Chapter Two
- 04Chapter Three
- 05Chapter Four
- 06Chapter Five
- 07Chapter Six
- 08Chapter Seven
- 09Chapter Eight
- 10Chapter Nine
- 11Chapter Twelve
- 12Chapter Thirteen
- 13Chapter Fourteen
- 14Chapter Fifteen
- 15Chapter One
- 16Chapter Two
- 17Chapter Three
- 18Chapter Four
- 19Chapter Five
- 20Chapter Six
- 21Chapter Seven
- 22Chapter Eight
- 23Chapter Nine
- 24Chapter Ten
- 25Chapter Eleven
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