Madame Bovary (1856)

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   El despertar por Kate Chopin (StarryNightElf)

   StarryNightElf: This is the American version of Madame Bovary - set in turn of the century Louisiana.

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   Ana Karenina por Leo Tolstoy (roby72)
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   Don Quijote de la Mancha o El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (DLSmithies)

   DLSmithies: Don Quixote was Flaubert's favourite book, and I've read somewhere that the idea of Madame Bovary is to re-tell the story of Don Quixote in a different context. Don Quixote is obsessed with chivalric literature, and immerses himself in it to the extent that he loses his grip on reality. Emma Bovary is bewitched by Romantic literature in the same way. There are lots of parallels between the two novels, and I think putting them side by side can lead to a better understanding of both.… (más)

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   Las costumbres nacionales por Edith Wharton (Limelite)

   Limelite: Essentially the same greedy, social climbing woman who gets herself into money troubles and manipulates men to get out of them -- but with more success. Similar commentary on society, but instead of the bourgeoisie of village France it's the upper crust of NYC of nearly the same time but without the trenchant humor of Flaubert.… (más)

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   La Feria De Las Vanidades por William Makepeace Thackeray (HollyMS)

   HollyMS: Both works are about women who would do anything to gain a life of luxury.

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   The Awakening and Selected Short Stories {9 stories} por Kate Chopin (Dilara86)
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   Lejos del mundanal ruido por Thomas Hardy (Booksloth)
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   Rojo y Negro por Stendhal (LittleMiho)
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   Effi Briest por Theodor Fontane (roby72)
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    Travesuras de la niña mala por Mario Vargas Llosa (browner56)

    browner56: The stories of two women, separated by 150 years, who search desperately for something they never find. Flaubert's legendary protaganist is the role model for Vargas Llosa's "bad girl".

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    The Female Quixote por Charlotte Lennox (allenmichie)
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    Something to Declare por Julian Barnes (KayCliff)
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    El loro de Flaubert por Julian Barnes (KayCliff)
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    Mrs Craddock por W. Somerset Maugham (soylentgreen23)

    soylentgreen23: 'Mrs Craddock' evidently shares a lot in common with Flaubert's masterpiece, especially in terms of its representation of a woman married to a dull man, who wishes to have a renewed taste of passion, despite the likely terrible consequences.

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    En busca del tiempo perdido. IV. Sodoma y Gomorra por Marcel Proust (caflores)
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    Matate, amor por Ariana Harwicz (potenza)

    potenza: Man Booker Intl finalist. Woman on the edge. Brutally feminist.

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    The Doctor's Wife por Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Lapsus_Linguae)

    Lapsus_Linguae: Both heroines love novels and wish to lead an adventurous life but instead, they both get married to down-to-earth medical men who, despite a sincere affection, never understand them.

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    La casa y el mundo por Rabindranath Tagore (CGlanovsky)
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    Serious Men por Manu Joseph (orangewords)
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    Een zuivere liefde por Sofja Tolstaja (Monika_L)

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