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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 BOVARY
Gustave 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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