Madame Bovary
Americannoun
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Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary embarks on a series of extramarital affairs after indulging in romantic fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
It's made me a more ambitious, active, curious book lover, whether I'm engaging with Madame Bovary or Carrie Soto.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022
In Madame Bovary, another French novelist, Gustave Flaubert, wrote of a rural doctor’s young wife whose desire for consumer goods and urban pleasures leads to her ruin.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“I thought, I want to write that story. I will bring him to Ireland, where a sort of embryonic Madame Bovary has a shop with French corsets and . . . and falls in love.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
I’m reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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