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Madame Bovary

Name: Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN: 9780143106494

Gustave Flaubert, 1856

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Gilmore Girls · S1 E1 · Rory Gilmore · On the walk to Doose's Market

Rory on the walk to Doose's: Moby-Dick

Flaubert was put on trial for obscenity over this one in 1857 and acquitted. Dean's opening line is that he noticed her reading about a bored wife who wrecks her life on romance novels, and he meant it as a compliment.

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