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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Recommended in 4 interviews and reading lists

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  1. George MonbiotInterview
    Middlemarch by George Eliot, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy…
  2. Kayla Rae WhitakerInterview
    Continuing my “classics I’ve missed” tear: Middlemarch by George Eliot is on the list, as is Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Resting at the top of my TBR list:
  3. Rébecca DautremerInterview
    Salambo by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Blonde from Joyce Carol Oates, The Little Friend by Donna Tartt, and The Paperboy by Pete Dexter.
  4. Naomi DuguidInterview
    I love the nineteenth century novels from France and Russia, again the classics known to all, such as Madame Bovary and A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I’d also like to mention Barchester Towers by Anthony…

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