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Madame Bovary = Gustave Flaubert's novel of a woman seeking escape from a middle class life; still regarded by many as one of the greatest novels ever written (1857)
- I'm reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously. (source)
- The novel which he esteemed above all others, he said, was Madame Bovary, not alone because of its formal perfection but because of the resolution of the suicide motif; Emma's death by self-poisoning seeming to be so beautifully inevitable as to become one of the supreme emblems, in Western literature, of the human condition. (source)
- Thus, though we do not know what Shakespeare went through when he wrote LEAR, we do know what Carlyle went through when he wrote the FRENCH REVOLUTION; what Flaubert went through when he wrote MADAME BOVARY; what Keats was going through when he tried to write poetry against the coming death and the indifference of the world. (source)
- Hayward talked of Richard Feverel and Madame Bovary, of Verlaine, Dante, and Matthew Arnold. (source)
- In Madame Bovary, Emma represents the romantic who this realistic novel discredits.
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Madame Bovary sighed.
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Madame Bovary = character in text
- The next day Madame Bovary senior arrived. (source)
- Madame Bovary began taking off his cravat. (source)
- When they left Tostes at the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant. (source)
- "Do you know what your wife wants?" replied Madame Bovary senior. (source)
- Look at him! he is in the market; he is bowing to Madame Bovary, who's got on a green bonnet. (source)
- Madame Bovary! why all the world calls you thus! (source)
- Madame Bovary bit her lips, and the child knocked about the village. (source)
- Chapter Two On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the diligence. (source)
- Ah! don't talk to me of it, Madame Bovary. (source)
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- At daybreak Madame Bovary senior arrived. (source)
- Rodolphe with Madame Bovary was talking dreams, presentiments, magnetism. (source)
- Madame Bovary, senior, had not opened her mouth all day. (source)
- "At Madame Bovary's, you're not making love to—" (source)
- Madame Bovary's greyhound had run across the field. (source)
- When Madame Bovary was in the kitchen she went up to the chimney. (source)
- Madame Bovary had opened her window overlooking the garden and watched the clouds. (source)
- Madame Bovary senior was thinking of her husband. (source)
- "Ah! don't you listen to him, Madame Bovary," interrupted Homais, bending over his plate. (source)
- Madame Bovary left on a Wednesday, the market-day at Yonville. (source)
- By the mere effect of her love Madame Bovary's manners changed. (source)
- Madame Bovary noticed that many ladies had not put their gloves in their glasses. (source)
- Madame Bovary," he thought, "is much prettier, especially fresher. (source)
- But as soon as he caught sight of Madame Bovary, "Excuse me," he said; "I did not recognise you." (source)
- It was a dark night; Madame Bovary junior was afraid of accidents for her husband. (source)
- On the following days Madame Bovary senior was much surprised at the change in her daughter-in-law. (source)
- The winter was severe, Madame Bovary's convalescence slow. (source)
- Often even Madame Bovary; taking no heed of him, began her toilette. (source)
- Madame Bovary, as she listened to him, wondered that she was so old. (source)
- As he came in, Madame Bovary arose hurriedly. (source)
- Madame Bovary said she was going to see her baby, but that she was beginning to grow tired. (source)
- Gustave Flaubert Paris, 12 April 1857 MADAME BOVARY (source)
- Madame Bovary took the basin to put it under the table. (source)
- Madame Bovary bought a bonnet, gloves, and a bouquet. (source)
- But Madame Bovary, senior, cried out loudly against this name of a sinner. (source)
- Madame Lefrancois was asleep near the cinders, while the stable-boy, lantern in hand, was waiting to show Monsieur and Madame Bovary the way home. (source)
- "Yet—yet—" objected Madame Bovary. (source)
- Old Rouault, with a new silk hat and the cuffs of his black coat covering his hands up to the nails, gave his arm to Madame Bovary senior. (source)
- At the crash of the glass Madame Bovary turned her head and saw in the garden the faces of peasants pressed against the window looking in at them. (source)
- "Where is the cure?" asked Madame Bovary of one of the lads, who was amusing himself by shaking a swivel in a hole too large for it. (source)
- Madame Bovary seemed surprised at this, and attributed the change in her ways to the religious sentiments she had contracted during her illness. (source)
- The conversation languished; Madame Bovary gave it up every few minutes, whilst he himself seemed quite embarrassed. (source)
- Madame Bovary again took Rodolphe's arm; he went on as if speaking to himself— "Yes, I have missed so many things." (source)
- "And," said Madame Bovary, taking her watch from her belt, "take this; you can pay yourself out of it." (source)
- Madame Bovary did not go downstairs to the dining-room; she wished to remain alone to look after the child. (source)
- He held out his hand with the ease of a gentleman; and Madame Bovary extended hers, without doubt obeying the attraction of a stronger will. (source)
- Madame Bovary, when he got to her house, was arranging a bundle of linen on the kitchen-table with Felicite. (source)
- When they arrived in front of her garden, Madame Bovary opened the little gate, ran up the steps and disappeared. (source)
- When Madame Bovary looked up, she always saw him there, like a sentinel on duty, with his skullcap over his ears and his vest of lasting. (source)
- It was to go over her house; he wanted to know it; and Madame Bovary seeing no objection to this, they both rose, when Charles came in. (source)
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