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	Madame Bovary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made it notorious.
		Madame Bovary, on the whole, is a commentary on the entire culture of Flaubert's time period, this being clearly illustrated by the focus on the absurdity of the scientific "rational" figures, the uselessness of the church rites, and the self-serving bourgeois Lheureux (who tricks Emma into buying off credit from him).
		The lies that fill Madame Bovary contribute to the sense of language’s inadequacy in the novel, and to the notion that words may be more effective for the purposes of obscuring the truth or conveying its opposite, than for representing the truth itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_Bovary (3072 words)

	Madame Bovary
		Gustave Flaubert's literary masterpiece "Madame Bovary" was highly controversial when it was published in 1857 and Flaubert even went to court (but was acquitted) for publishing a morally offensive book.
		Madame Bovary is a sumptuously produced film, expertly directed by Vincente Minnelli, and still looks good today.
		Jennifer Jones was not enthusiastic about playing Emma Bovary (Vincente Minnelli's first choice, Lana Turner, was unavailable due to pregnancy) and in later years she stated that she felt she was not ready to tackle the complex role.
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	Madame Bovary
		Madame Bovary is the story of Emma Bovary, an unhappily married woman who seeks escape through forbidden relationships with other men.
		The book could be viewed as an expose of the situation of women in the 19th century; women who had not yet been emancipated and were expected to obey their husbands, to stay in their homes while the men went to work, or left for months on end to fight in wars.
		Ultimately, Madame Bovary's indiscretions and her obsession with Romance lead to her downfall, which not only appeases the guardians of morality, but shows us Flaubert's view of the world wasn't one of naive optimism.
	www.madamebovary.com (341 words)

	Flaubert (Gustave) Madame Bovary Summary
		Bovary (the younger), she contemplates her boredom and is disappointed that her prosaic life has not lived up to her romantic fantasies.
		Bovary worries that he may be an immoral influence on Emma and they leave early.
		Léon dines frequently with Homais and the Bovarys, and she and Léon converse privately as the older men fall asleep.
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	NovelGuide: Madame Bovary: Character Profiles
		Charles Bovary An officier de santé [licensed to practice medicine without an M.D. degree] who marries Emma. He is kindhearted and genuinely loves his wife but his lack of ambition and dearth of emotion frustrates her. He is distraught by her death and dies of a broken heart after learning of her extra-marital affairs.
		Madame Bovary (elder) Charles’ mother. She arranges for his education and his first marriage to the widow Dubuc. She and Emma quarrel often and her son’s preference for his wife, even after Emma’s death, drives a wedge between the mother and son.
		Madame Rollet the wetnurse who cares for Berthe Bovary when she is an infant. She is the conduit for letters from Léon during he and Emma’s affair and it is to her house that Emma flees when nobody in town will lend her money to stave off the creditors.
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	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Madame Bovary
		Madame Bovary, written by Gustave Flaubert, was published in 1857 in French.
		Flaubert’s protagonist is Emma Bovary, a young, beautiful girl who wishes deeply for romantic love, wealth, and social status, which are out of her reach due to her marriage to Charles Bovary, a middle-class doctor.
		Madame Delamare was educated in a convent and had a penchant for romantic novels.
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	Scenes from a provincial life \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		I was like Emma Rouault before she became Madame Bovary, someone whose most intense life was in books, from which I had formed vague images of passion and adventure, love and weddings, marriage and children.
		Madame Bovary opened a vision of meaninglessness and emptiness, which was all the more appalling because it was so full of things, clothes and furniture, rooms and gardens.
		Madame Bovary was published in 1856-7 and is at the centre of any discussion of the European realistic novel of bourgeois life - especially provincial life.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/classics/story/0,6000,763030,00.html (2503 words)

	Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
		Charles first encounters Emma -- the future (and one and only true) Madame Bovary -- when he is summoned to attend to the fractured leg of her father, a well-to-do farmer, Monsieur Rouault.
		The Bovary's also had a daughter, Berthe, and while her father adores her Emma can barely stand the little thing (she had longed for a son, and fainted dead away upon learning she had given birth to this instead), and her fate is the saddest of all.
		Madame Bovary is an almost universally known classic, burdened by its own reputation: it is almost impossible to come to the text without some sense of who this famous character is and what she does in these pages.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/flaubert/mbovary.htm (1867 words)

	Madame Bovary
		Bovary borrows to cover Emma’s debts, but he remains indulgent with her and, for diversion, takes her to a Donizetti opera in Rouen.
		Bovary goes along with the idea, unaware of the extent of Emma’s indebtedness, and allows her to travel to Rouen to have Dupuis do the legal work.
		Bovary, who has been out looking for her to find out why their possessions have been confiscated, also returns home and discovers Emma dying and in great pain.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /Guides3/Bovary.html (3008 words)

	World's Greatest Classic Books - Madame Bovary
		Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists.
		In Madame Bovary, young Justin, the chemist’s assistant, longs for Emma in the same way, and Emma’s unfulfilled longing for the perfect love echoes this relationship.
		Madame Bovary parallels the true story of Eugene Delamare, a former student of Flaubert’s father who had practiced medicine as an army officer and had married an older woman.
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	Salon \| Fiction victim
		"Madame Bovary" can be approached in many ways: as a notable banned book (like "Ulysses" or "Lolita"), as a book that delineates the confinement of the 19th century wife, as a book that influences subsequent development of the novel, even as a book that betrays the foot fetishism of the author.
		If Emma Bovary, with all her self-delusion, still stirs our hearts, it is because she wants something authentic and important: for her life to have meaning, for her life to bring transcendence.
		If "Madame Bovary" can still move us all these years later, it is because she was both Flaubert's refuge -- and his self-portrait.
	www.salon.com /sept97/bovary970915.html (499 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, Paperback, Special Value
		Madame Bovary is the story of a beautiful young woman who marries a luckless and loutish country doctor.
		Charles, Madame Bovary's husband, is not the brightest of creatures, but he dearly loves his wife, puts her on a pedastal, and indulges her by giving her whatever she wants.
		The title is 'Madame Bovary' but the real hero is her sweet kind husband Charles and, to a lesser extent her child, Berthe, who loves her mother unconditionally despite the fact that her mother hardly seems to truly care about anyone but herself.
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	washingtonpost.com: Madame Bovary
		Though Madame Bovary escapes Flaubert's predilection for overblown, histrionic description, his heroine is primarily a woman of gestures, a mime of the grandly operatic emotions she yearns to feel.
		What truly matters is this: Madame Bovary is available in a superb new translation, in a handsome hardback volume, and if you've never read it, or if you've only worked through it in first-year college French, you need to sit down with this book as soon as possible.
		The novelist once famously proclaimed that he himself was Madame Bovary -- but failed to add that so are you, so am I. We are all the victims of unrealized or unrealizable dreams.
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	PlanetPapers - Madame Bovary
		Madame Bovary is the story of Emma Bovary, but within the scope of symbolic meaning, the make-up of Charles is addressed.
		It is representative of deep sadness and a despondent outlook on life whose many symbols are, at times, as deeply embedded in the story line as a thorn in a callous heel.
		Symbolic of his yearning for inner fulfillment, Charles Bovary presents to be a man in search of an unknown sensual satisfaction.
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	Madame Bovary Summary & Essays - Gustave Flaubert
		After Revue de Paris published several installments of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the editor decided to remove from the novel several passages he determined would be offensive to France’s conservative Second Empire (1852–1870), ruled by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte III.
		Madame Bovary immediately gained a wide readership, due not only to its notoriety but also to its celebrated artistry.
		The result of his painstaking creativity was a penetrating psychological study of its heroine, Emma Bovary, as she struggles to find fulfillment through a realization of her romantic fantasies of love and wealth.
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	Madame Bovary - Chapter Fourteen
		Madame Bovary's mind was not yet sufficiently clear to apply herself seriously to anything; moreover, she began this reading in too much hurry.
		Bovary invited him to have a drink, and he thoroughly understood the uncorking of the stone bottles.
		The idea of the theatre quickly germinated in Bovary's head, for he at once communicated it to his wife, who at first refused, alleging the fatigue, the worry, the expense; but, for a wonder, Charles did not give in, so sure was he that this recreation would be good for her.
	worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/MadameBovary/chap23.html (5353 words)

	Amazon.de: Madame Bovary.: Bücher: Gustave Flaubert,Ilse Perker,Ernst Sander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Madame Bovary ist eine Tochter aus bürgerlichem Hause, die mit einem einigermaßen erfolgreichen Landarzt verheiratet wird.
		Emma Bovary flüchtet sich in lebensferne Romane und durchlebt in Abständen Phasen von Hysterie.
		Madame Bovary hätte lieber ein Leben voller Abenteuer, Leidenschaft und Luxus, muss sich aber mit dem Leben als Gattin eines mittelmäßigen Landarztes zufrieden geben, statt Abenteuer ländliche Tristesse, statt Leidenschaft die Pantoffeln ihres Mannes vorwärmen.
	www.amazon.de /Madame-Bovary-Gustave-Flaubert/dp/3379200751 (2535 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics): Books: Gustave Flaubert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		"Madame Bovary" may have scandalised French society in the 19th Century with its account of the married life of serial adulterer Emma Bovary, but it is tame by today's standards and now lacks any kind of shock appeal.
		There are certainly a lot more Madame Bovary's around today than there was in Flaubert's time ; you could almost say that the majority of women today possess her characteristics and morals.
		Emma Bovary is so significant a text in pushing the boundaries of "classic" literature, and has been central to so much critical debate that it is astonishing that anyone could find it boring.
	amazon.co.uk /Madame-Bovary-Provincial-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140621792 (1544 words)

	Gustave Flaubert
		French novelist of the realist school, best-known for MADAME BOVARY (1857), a story of adultery and unhappy love affair of the provincial wife Emma Bovary.
		Madame Bovary was published in two volumes in 1857, but it appeared originally in the Revue de Paris, 1856-57.
		Charles Bovary dies soon after her and their daughter Berthe is taken care of poor relatives.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /flaubert.htm (1684 words)

	Amazon.com: Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics): Books: Gustave Flaubert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Madame Bovary is not flawless, but it comes awfully close.
		When MADAME BOVARY first appeared in bookstores in 1857, Parisian readers were shocked by the realism that Gustave Flaubert pictured in the very ordinary life of a heroine who was guilty only in not being able to control her overarching desire to be more than what she was.
		In the opening chapter when we first see the young Charles Bovary, Emma's future husband, entering school as a painfully shy boy, he is instantly made fun of by the other boys who take great fun in ridiculing him in a manner that foreshadows a similar debasement by Emma.
	www.amazon.com /Madame-Bovary-Classics-Gustave-Flaubert/dp/0553213415 (4359 words)

	Madame Bovary - Chapter Eight
		Rodolphe, meanwhile, with Madame Bovary, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall, to the "council-room," and, as it was empty, he declared that they could enjoy the sight there more comfortably.
		Madame Bovary took Rodolphe's arm; he saw her home; they separated at her door; then he walked about alone in the meadow while he waited for the time of the banquet.
		He was dreaming of what she had said, of the line of her lips; her face, as in a magic mirror, shone on the plates of the shakos, the folds of her gown fell along the walls, and days of love unrolled to all infinity before him in the vistas of the future.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/romance/MadameBovary/chap17.html (6078 words)

	Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
		Madame Lefrancois had dropped off into a doze by the dying fire, while the ostler, lantern in hand, was waiting to light Monsieur and Madame Bovary to their house.
		Monsieur Homais thought a good deal of him, because he was well educated; Madame Homais liked him because he was so obliging, for he often took the little Homais children into the garden- dirty little brats, horribly spoilt and, like their mother, rather excitable.
		He told Madame Bovary all about the tradespeople, got his own cider merchant to call, sampled the liquor himself and went down into the cellar to make sure the cask was put in the best place.
	www.4literature.net /Gustave_Flaubert/Madame_Bovary/25.html (1285 words)

	Madame Bovary - Moviefone
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	Madame Bovary
		Flaubert's 1856 novel, Madame Bovary, is a masterpiece, a pioneering work of nineteenth century realism which resulted in an 1857 obscenity trial, as much instigated by Flaubert's scathing observations of middle-class pretentiousness as by its depiction of the heroine's sexual escapades.
		The story of Emma, a country girl with a convent education, who aspires to a grander life than that she finds married to a dull country doctor, has intrigued generations of readers, each reinterpreting the work in the light of changing mores.
		She meets, charms, and marries Dr. Charles Bovary (Hugh Bonneville), a young widower who loves her deeply, but fulfills neither her romantic fantasies nor her sexual hungers.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/MadameBovary.htm (786 words)

	Amazon.com: Madame Bovary: Books: Gustave Flaubert,Geoffrey Wall,Michele Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.
		In his primary characters, Charles Bovary and his wife Emma, Flaubert distinguishes between the pragmatic and enduring idea of love and the romantic and impractical.
		Flaubert's Madame Bovary must not be mistaken for a mawkish and effusive love story, but recognized as a work of satirical genius.
	www.amazon.com /Madame-Bovary-Gustave-Flaubert/dp/0140449124 (1627 words)

	Amazon.ca: Madame Bovary: Representations of the Masculine: Books: Mary Orr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Through close readings of the male characters of 'Madame Bovary' this book opens up the sociological and legal contexts of Flaubert's famous novel and its heroine in new ways.
		Current gender and masculinities theory is combined with attention to the 19th-century French codification of sex as defined by the Code Napoleon to frame central questions about male privilege, male roles, "successful" manhood, masculinity, and male identity formation.
		Not only does this study then offer a new approach to a well-known novel in its French context, but it also opens up a method whereby the canonical 19th-century European novelists can be reevaluated through their various treatments of the masculine.
	www.amazon.ca /Madame-Bovary-Representations-Mary-Orr/dp/082044247X (271 words)

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