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Flaubert, Gustave. Dictionary of Accepted Ideas. Max Reinhardt, London. 1954. 

This element, perhaps more than any other, has long been associated with poisoning, especially of the homicidal and suicidal type. Thus Agatha Christie called one of her plays Arsenic and Old Lace and the author Gustave Flaubert had his character Emma Bovary use an arsenic compound to commit suicide in the novel Madame Bovary. This aspect of arsenic poisoning will be discussed in more detail in Chapter 9 (pp. 221-2). 

In his novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert describes the characteristics of arsenic poisoning in the suicide of Emma Bovary who has taken... 

The dominant theme of the pharmacist in the literature is, according to Urdang, the intermediate social position, between being a scientist or a physician and a seller, which has led to some pseudoscientific characters, for instance Homais in Gustave Flaubert s Madame Bovety (1857). 

Gustav Flaubert, 1964. The author creates a modern style of writing to depict modern sensibilities. 

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