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Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi]), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape ...
The fictional title character, a priestess and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, the foremost Carthaginian general, is the object of the obsessive lust of Matho, a leader of the mercenaries. With the help of the scheming freed slave, Spendius, Matho steals the sacred veil of Carthage, the Zaïmph, prompting Salammbô to enter the mercenaries ...
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education; Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) Henri Murger (1822–1861), author of Scènes de la vie de bohème; Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), author of La Dame aux camélias; Edmond About (1828–1885)
Madame Bovary is novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. Madame Bovary may also refer to: Films. Madame Bovary, directed by Jean Renoir; Madame ...
Among its themes are the subordinate role expected from women in 19th-century European society, adultery, provincial life (thus drawing comparison with Flaubert's Madame Bovary) and the planning of murder by a woman, hence it having a title inspired by the Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth from his play Macbeth, and echoing the title of ...
In some cases, especially 19th century and earlier books, the full title included a longer preamble like "The History of...", but has been shortened in general use to just the heroine's name – for example, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders; these are included regardless of whether their entry is called by the full or ...
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Gustave Flaubert's great novels Madame Bovary (1857)—which reveals the tragic consequences of romanticism on the wife of a provincial doctor—and Sentimental Education represent perhaps the highest stages in the development of French realism, while Flaubert's romanticism is apparent in his fantastic The Temptation of Saint Anthony and the ...