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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Realism
1857
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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The story
Emma Bovary expects from life what novels promised her; the provinces promise nothing — and Flaubert counts every centime of the difference.
About the author
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) brought French prose to a precision that founded the modern realist novel.
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