Madame Bovary

He's more into the timeless classics, like Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Later this year, Pickett’s “Emma Bovary,” which is not a straight adaptation but inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” with a Peter Salem score, gets a world premiere at the National Ballet of Canada.

A banquet staged by one of her characters draws on a feast described in “Madame Bovary,” a flourish typical of Ms. Ugresic’s fiction.

It's made me a more ambitious, active, curious book lover, whether I'm engaging with Madame Bovary or Carrie Soto.

Jill Biden, who, like Macron’s wife, is a teacher, received copies of Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” and Albert Camus’ “The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays.”