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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880) was the son of a French surgeon. He studied law in Paris but soon returned to his hometown (Croisset, near Rouen) to devote his life to writing. He is the author of the immortal Madame Bovary (1856), a novel about the loves and frustrations of a romantic woman married to a provincial dullard. The book was criticized for immorality and prosecuted, but Flaubert won the case. Of the extremely well-realized heroine...

A classic novel relating the story of a young country doctor's wife who seeks escape from the boredom of her existence in love affairs and romantic yearnings, and who is doomed to disillusionment.

Part II of Bouvard and Pecuchet also includes several bonus shorts: the play "The Dance of Death, " an essay on Rabelais, and other non-fiction. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880) was the son of a French surgeon. He studied law in Paris but soon returned to his hometown (Croisset, near Rouen) to devote his life to writing. He is the author of the immortal Madame Bovary (1856), a novel about the loves and frustrations of a romantic woman married to ...

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, this is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. This ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a troubled period of European history is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

The story of a woman who, after marriage, found herself unhappy with rural, genteel existence, longs for love and excitement. Her aspirations and desires lead her in a tragic downward spiral.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In "Madame Bovary, " his story of a shallow, deluded, unfaithful, but consistently compelling woman living in the provinces of nineteenth-century France, Gustave Flaubert invented not only the modern novel but also a modern attitude toward human character and human experience that remains with us to this day. One of the rare works of art that it would be fair to call perfect, "Madame Bovary" has had an incal?cul...

This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone, it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgement." - Henry James Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptu...

Novel in which a woman defies the standards of conventional French society.

Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroadAt 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 traveling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the N...

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Auf der wunderbaren Reise durch dieses Buch wird man in höchst unterschiedliche Welten entführt: >Herodias< entführt in die biblische Welt von Salome und der Hinrichtung Johannes' des Täufers, >Die Legende von Saint Julien dem Gastfreundlichen< variiert den mittelalterlichen Stoff vom christlichen Ödipus, und die berühmteste der drei Erzählungen, >Ein schlichtes Gemüt<, widmet sich der Alltagswelt einer einfachen Magd, der am Ende ihres Lebens...