Download or read book Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on three literary masterpieces--Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks--the author of The Enlightenment explores the complex relationship between history and literature, reality and fiction, to reveal the essence of literary truth. Reprint.