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  2. Madame Bovary - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 19th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Gustave Flaubert - Wikipedia

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    Gustave Flaubert (UK: / ˈ f l oʊ b ɛər / FLOH-bair, US: / f l oʊ ˈ b ɛər / floh-BAIR; [1] [2] French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad.

  5. Madame Bovary (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Madame Bovary is novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. Madame Bovary may also refer to: Films. Madame Bovary, directed by Jean Renoir; Madame ...

  6. The Perpetual Orgy - Wikipedia

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    Flaubert y Madame Bovary, 1975) is a book-length essay by the Nobel Prize–winning Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa which examines Flaubert's 1857 book Madame Bovary as the first modern novel. The first part of The Perpetual Orgy has an autobiographical tone; Vargas Llosa then goes on to examine the structure and meaning of Madame Bovary ...

  7. Eileen Atkins - Wikipedia

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    Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Lower Clapton, a Salvation Army maternity hospital in east London.Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Thomas Arthur Atkins, [3] was a gas meter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador.

  8. Gladys Cooper - Wikipedia

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    Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.

  9. Madame Bovary (1975 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Madame Bovary is a British period television series, based on the novel of the same title by Gustave Flaubert. [1] It originally aired in four episodes on BBC 2 in 1975.