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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf Francis SteegmullerFlaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the train last week to look after cattle disease. As I read ...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishin...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.'Alfred Hitchcock Gustav FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book



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