Madame Bovary
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
In Chee’s telling, the writer’s life always lurks just beyond the page, and not only in the way that Gustave Flaubert was Madame Bovary or Henry James the prepubescent heroine of “What Maisie Knew.”
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
I’m reading Madame Bovary in French now, grievously, very grievously.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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