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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt: A Novel | Andrea Bobotis

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oddandbookish

Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Alex Struik

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What a tragic yet captivating tale!

I added this book to my “To Read” shelf on Goodreads way back in March of 2015. Now 9 years later I finally read it and I‘m so glad I did.

There is nothing happy about this story, but it‘s beautiful and intriguing in its own way. Immediately upon starting, I was pulled right into the story.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/review-madame-bovary/

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AroundTheBookWorld

A Twisted Tale Anthology | Farrah Rochon, Elizabeth Lim, Kristina P�rez, M K England, Mical Ostow

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Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary tells the bleak story of a marriage that ends in tragedy. Charles Bovary, a good-hearted but dull and unambitious doctor with a meagre practice, marries Emma, a beautiful farm girl raised in a convent.
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Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert

We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a 'new fellow,' not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
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Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert

This book is very strange.
It centers around a young woman who marries a doctor and becomes bored with her life.

#classic #madamebovary #propernounintitle

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merelybookish

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait | Francis Steegmuller

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Took me a while but I thoroughly enjoyed this biography of Flaubert. Divided into three parts -- Romanticism, The Purge, Realism -- it charts Flaubert's development from an eccentric romantic youth to a serious artist exploiting bourgeois style to skewer the bourgeoisie. It helps that Flaubert is a truly entertaining (and inconsistent) character. Bios are not my usual cuppa but this one read like a good novel. Now to revisit Madame Bovary!

batsy Sounds great! I've been having the itch to revisit Madam Bovary again too but want to get a fancy edition of a different translation 🙂 11mo

merelybookish @batsy Oooh what translation? (Not that I need to purchase a fancy new edition 💸) 11mo

batsy I'm torn between the Adam Thorpe and Lydia Davis translations! Which translation have you read? I have the Penguin Popular Classics edition that I bought when I was a teen and haven't read a different one since. 11mo

merelybookish @batsy I would have read something in university. Penguin Classics edition probably. I don't usually pay too much to translator as it can become another rabbit hole I can get lost in. (Even tho I can appreciate how important the translator is.) That said, Lydia Davis did the first volume of Proust, and so it would be tempting to read her version of Flaubert 11mo

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merelybookish

Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait | Francis Steegmuller

Perfect example of #moodreading. Not sure why (after years of owning it), I decided I wanted to read this literary bio of Flaubert and his most famous character. And yet, here I am. (Perhaps I'm still in the mood for all things 🇫🇷.)
Considered one of the best examples of literary biography, it is proving an entertaining read so far. Plus, there is something to reading about a different time and realizing many of today's problems are not new.

Leftcoastzen It‘s weird how they call your name sometimes when they have been sitting on the shelves for years. 12mo

merelybookish @Leftcoastzen Yes! It's why it's so hard to get rid of a book, even if it's been unread for years. 12mo

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