Quotes from Gustave Flaubert's books, and about them
Madame Bovary on Paul and Virginia: “She had read "Paul and Virginia," and she had dreamed of the little bamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the sweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for you on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand, bringing you a bird's nest.”
Madame Bovary on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame: “She declared she adored children; this was her consolation, her joy, her passion, and she accompanied her caresses with lyrical outburst which would have reminded anyone but the Yonville people of Sachette in "Notre Dame de Paris."”
Madame Bovary on La Tour de Nesle: “the coarse colours of four bills representing four scenes from the “Tour de Nesle,” with a motto in Spanish and French at the bottom.”
Madame Bovary on La Guerre des Dieux: “This mockery of the first of the sacraments made the Abbe Bournisien angry; old Bovary replied by a quotation from "La Guerre des Dieux"; the cure wanted to leave; the ladies implored, Homais interfered; and they succeeded in making the priest sit down again, and he quietly went on with the…”
Sentimental Education on Fables: “a little mahogany bookcase containing the _Fables of Lachambeaudie_, the _Mysteries of Paris_, and Norvins' _Napoleon_”
Sentimental Education on The Mysteries of Paris: “He wanted to learn the shoe-trick, in order to visit the thieves' taverns of the city, like Rodolphe in the _Mysteries of Paris_”
Sentimental Education on Histoire de Napoléon: “a little mahogany bookcase containing the _Fables of Lachambeaudie_, the _Mysteries of Paris_, and Norvins' _Napoleon_”