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Madame Bovary
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  • Madame Bovary at Columbia Extension School.  (source)
    Madame Bovary = main character and title of 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)
  • 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)
    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)
  • Hayward talked of Richard Feverel and Madame Bovary, of Verlaine, Dante, and Matthew Arnold.  (source)
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  • Madame Bovary takes a course in Television Appreciation.  (source)
    Madame Bovary = main character and title of 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.†
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  • When Madame Bovary was in the kitchen she went up to the chimney.  (source)
    Madame Bovary = untracked name in this novel
  • Gustave Flaubert Paris, 12 April 1857 MADAME BOVARY  (source)
  • Madame Bovary bit her lips, and the child knocked about the village.  (source)
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  • At daybreak Madame Bovary senior arrived.  (source)
    Madame Bovary = untracked name in this novel
  • Madame Bovary took the basin to put it under the table.  (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)
  • "Ah! don't you listen to him, Madame Bovary," interrupted Homais, bending over his plate.  (source)
  • Ah! don't talk to me of it, Madame Bovary.  (source)
  • Madame Bovary, senior, had not opened her mouth all day.  (source)
  • Madame Bovary left on a Wednesday, the market-day at Yonville.  (source)
  • Madame Bovary had opened her window overlooking the garden and watched the clouds.  (source)
  • But Madame Bovary, senior, cried out loudly against this name of a sinner.  (source)
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