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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)- In Madame Bovary, Emma represents the romantic who this realistic novel discredits.
- I'm reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- Hayward talked of Richard Feverel and Madame Bovary, of Verlaine, Dante, and Matthew Arnold.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- Gustave Flaubert Paris, 12 April 1857 MADAME BOVARYGustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- 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.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- 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.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Madame Bovary senior was with them.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- At daybreak Madame Bovary senior arrived.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Madame Bovary's face flushed purple.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Then Madame Bovary sent in accounts to two or three patients, and she made large use of this method, which was very successful.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- "At Madame Bovary's, you're not making love to—"Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Despite the low price of each article, Madame Bovary senior, of course, thought the expenditure extravagant.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- But Charles, rebelling for the first time, took his wife's part, so that Madame Bovary, senior, said she would leave.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- And taking a pen he wrote at the bottom of the account, "Received of Madame Bovary four thousand francs."Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Madame Bovary senior was thinking of her husband.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- The next day Madame Bovary senior arrived.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Madame Bovary seemed surprised at this, and attributed the change in her ways to the religious sentiments she had contracted during her illness.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Chapter Two On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the diligence.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Madame Bovary put up her eyeglasses.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Madame Bovary, as she listened to him, wondered that she was so old.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
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