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Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

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A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.

Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel.


Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western ...