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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20020901
Author:Reviewed by Lorraine Adams

SAVAGE REPRISALS

Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

By Peter Gay

Norton. 192 pp. $24.95

Cultural historian Peter Gay argues in his new book that the great realistic novelists have done history a great disservice. He indicts Charles Dickens for being dumb about judicial reform, Gustave Flaubert for misjudging the bourgeoisie and Thomas Mann for ignoring Germany's successful families.

Gay is a Yale historian who over the past four decades has written more than 20 books of cultural history, including Schnitzler's Century and "The Bourgeois Experience," a multivolume study of the Victorians. ...

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