Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 1857 CE · Novel · French · Victorian

Emma, raised on convent romances, marries a dull country doctor and finds provincial Normandy unbearably small. She looks for the life she read about first in an affair, then another, then in things bought on credit. A romantic imagination starved by provincial life; longing that spends itself into ruin.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Don Quixote
  Cervantes · 1605 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Necklace
  Guy de Maupassant · 1884 CE · Short Story — influenced by this
• ↓ Germinal
  Émile Zola · 1885 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ The Awakening
  Kate Chopin · 1899 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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