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Literary realism
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Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward way, avoiding grandiose or exotic subject-matter
Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer from the Canary Islands
Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish writer from the Canary Islands
Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, commonly known as simply Madame Bovary, is the début novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857. The eponymous character, Emma Bo
Literary realism
…Finnish peasants in an unadorned realism, long before the work achieved the status of a national novel. Gustave Flaubert's (1821–1880) acclaimed novels Madame Bovary (1857), which reveals the tragic consequences of romanticism on the wife of a provincial doctor, and Sentimental Education (1869) represent perhaps the…
Title page of the original French edition, 1857
Title page of the original French edition, 1857
Illustration by Charles Léandre Madame Bovary, engraved by Eugène Decisy [fr]. (Illustration without text on page 322: Emma in male costume at the bal
Illustration by Charles Léandre Madame Bovary, engraved by Eugène Decisy [fr]. (Illustration without text on page 322: Emma in male costume at the ball)