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Examples
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Maia, I think your vision of Emma Bovary is a little simplistic.
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"Madame Bovary" is the rather uneventful fictional biography of a shallow young woman.
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And about a third of the way through, this dawned on me, and it's a little trick that I always loved when I read it, when I re-read "Madame Bovary," is Flaubert uses, in the beginning of "Madame Bovary."
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"Madame Bovary" is the rather uneventful fictional biography of a shallow young woman.
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The other marvel about "Madame Bovary" is just how current it is in its assessment of the dangers that can result from blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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The other marvel about "Madame Bovary" is just how current it is in its assessment of the dangers that can result from blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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Madame Bovary is the classic literary case study of the dangers of reading.
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The other marvel about "Madame Bovary" is just how current it is in its assessment of the dangers that can result from blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
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"Madame Bovary" is the rather uneventful fictional biography of a shallow young woman.
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"Madame Bovary" is the rather uneventful fictional biography of a shallow young woman.
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