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A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke. Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every l ...Show more
BOUVARD & PECUCHET by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Category: Classic Fiction
Two men made their appearance. One came from the direction of the Bastille; the other from that of the Jardin des Plantes. The taller of the pair, arrayed in linen cloth, walked with his hat back, his waistcoat unbuttoned, and his cravat in his hand. The smaller, whose form was covered with a maroon fro ...Show more
Bouvard and Pecuchet by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Category: Classic Fiction
Two men made their appearance. One came from the direction of the Bastille; the other from that of the Jardin des Plantes. The taller of the pair, arrayed in linen cloth, walked with his hat back, his waistcoat unbuttoned, and his cravat in his hand. The smaller, whose form was covered with a maroon fro ...Show more
Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert; Jacques Barzun (Translator)
Category: Non-Fiction
Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the clich , the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the "right thinking" swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of absurdities, of half-truths and social lies, was published as a Dictionnaire des id es re ...Show more
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Fiction
At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a 'sensibility on tour', Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's travelling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis ...Show more
Madam Bovary: Wonders of the World by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Fiction | Series: Wonders of the World S.
Flaubert's heroine, Emma, is a bored provincial housewife who abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. The book created a sensation when it was published - the author was prosecuted for offending public morals and later aquitted.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction
Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for the passion of romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves her bored and dissatisfied. She seeks escape through ex ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library 140
Gustave Flaubert's first published novel 'Madame Bovary' has been enjoyed by readers around the world for over 150 years. A fantastically well-written novel, it is considered by many to be Flaubert's masterpiece, and the author himself confessed to be a perfectionist when it came to the details. It was ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; Christopher Moncrieff (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental d ...Show more
Madame Bovary by FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
This is a major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passio ...Show more