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Madame Bovary

[ boh-vuh-ree ]

noun

  1. a novel (1857) by Gustave Flaubert.


Madame Bovary

  1. A novel by Gustave Flaubert . The title character , dissatisfied with her marriage, seeks happiness in adultery and finally commits suicide.


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Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

One could just as easily be reading Madame Bovary on the subway as Wild Western Nights, and no one else has to be the wiser.

True confession: I hated Madame Bovary, sacrilegious as that sounds.

If 'Fanny' strikes you, 'Madame Bovary' will thunder-strike you.

He fears the tragic satire of Madame Bovary no more than a good pedestrian fears the east wind.

I had to see what success Madame Bovary had with all the clever people of society to believe in the success of Fanny.

We had left the owner with a reading-lamp at the head of his couch, and a copy of "Madame Bovary" to pass the time.

Madame Bovary noticed that many ladies had not put their gloves in their glasses.

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