Madame Bovary
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Part 1, Chapter 1 Part 1, Chapter 2 Part 1, Chapter 3 Part 1, Chapter 4 Part 1, Chapter 5 Part 1, Chapter 6 Part 1, Chapter 7 Part 1, Chapter 8 Part 1, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 1 Part 2, Chapter 2 Part 2, Chapter 3 Part 2, Chapter 4 Part 2, Chapter 5 Part 2, Chapter 6 Part 2, Chapter 7 Part 2, Chapter 8 Part 2, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 10 Part 2, Chapter 11 Part 2, Chapter 12 Part 2, Chapter 13 Part 2, Chapter 14 Part 2, Chapter 15 Part 3, Chapter 1 Part 3, Chapter 2 Part 3, Chapter 3 Part 3, Chapter 4 Part 3, Chapter 5 Part 3, Chapter 6 Part 3, Chapter 7 Part 3, Chapter 8 Part 3, Chapter 9 Part 3, Chapter 10 Part 3, Chapter 11
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All Themes Abstraction, Fantasy, and Experience The Sublime and the Mundane Love and Desire Causes, Appearances, and Boredom Truth, Rhetoric, and Hypocrisy
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All Characters Emma Bovary Charles Bovary Rodolphe Boulanger Léon Dupuis Monsieur Homais Monsieur Lheureux The elder Madame Bovary Berthe Bovary Monsieur Rouault Hippolyte
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All Symbols “The big blue country” The lathe
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