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Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Gustave Flaubert

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pur...

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The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The title was cited in a brief comparison while the hosts talked about French literature they knew.

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I knew how to say what do you think about Madam Bovary is yeah Madam Bovary

— Episode: 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camu...

Episode: 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus

The title was cited in a brief comparison while the hosts talked about French literature they knew.

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I knew how to say what do you think about Madam Bovary is yeah Madam Bovary

Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

Leighton recounted that Feynman once mentioned having read the novel Madame Bovary.

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He said, I did read a novel once. It was called Madame Bovary and it was kind of nifty.

— Episode: The Vanishing Mr. Feynman (Update)

Episode: The Vanishing Mr. Feynman (Update)

Leighton recounted that Feynman once mentioned having read the novel Madame Bovary.

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He said, I did read a novel once. It was called Madame Bovary and it was kind of nifty.

The Moth

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The Moth

The story mentioned an interaction between Mary Gaitskill and the head of the department, who seemed to think that "Madame Bovary" was a book about a very bad mother.

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She seemed to think was a book about a very bad mother.

— Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Over the River and...

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Over the River and Through th...

The story mentioned an interaction between Mary Gaitskill and the head of the department, who seemed to think that "Madame Bovary" was a book about a very bad mother.

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She seemed to think was a book about a very bad mother.

The Bulwark Podcast

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The Bulwark Podcast

The book was mentioned rhetorically by Nicholas Christakis in a tweet to question the notion that fiction writers should only write about people of their own identity, asking if Flaubert should not have written it.

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Should Flaubert not have written Madame Bovary?

— Episode: Will Saletan: How Many Coups Do You Have...

Episode: Will Saletan: How Many Coups Do You Have to Attemp...

The book was mentioned rhetorically by Nicholas Christakis in a tweet to question the notion that fiction writers should only write about people of their own identity, asking if Flaubert should not have written it.

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Should Flaubert not have written Madame Bovary?

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