books by Gustave Flaubert

books by Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World's Classics)

Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Wow, what a prescient novel
This is a very well written novel. It deserves its high status in the cannon of world literature. The most unique and surprising thing about this novel is that it seems to be so timely and modern. Though it was written long before our consumer driven culture of debt, ...

Madame Bovary

Kindle Classics, 2008

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 desires lead her only to suffering corruption ...

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Penguin Popular Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics, 1995

Simple Plot, Elaborate Details in This Masterpiece
A simple story really: Charles Bovary, an insensitive, crude, socially awkward oaf, sleazes his way into the medical profession and becomes a doctor in small French provinces at the danger of the citizenry. Additionally, Charles marries a young, beautiful woman, Emma, ...

Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Penguin Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics, 1976

Essential reading for the 80's generation-disco desperates
Although he never finished this book, it remains even in translation, a perfect guide to the perils of bourgeois ambitions. Two hapless bank clerks use a sudden inheritance to dabble disastrously in all the current fashions, with hilarious and mordant results. ...

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (Penguin Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics, 1996

Orientalism
In 1849 Gustave Flaubert was twenty eight. He had an air of athletic vigor. He was the son of a doctor. He had always written. At this point he had finished THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY. Friends suggested he use a story known to him, perhaps through his father, ...

Salambo (Penguin Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics, 1977

Worthy of a wider audience
Even though I agree with the reviewers who stated that this novel is nothing like Madame Bovary, I tend to see this as a strength of a talented world writer. In this novel Carthage is in its death throes as an imperial nation---eternally at war and unable to meet the ...

A Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Masterful
Flaubert's great 'A Sentimental Education' is one of the great achievements of literary realism. Less stifling perhaps than 'Madame Bovary,' this fine novel portrays the immensely rich and entertaining world of Frederic, the young dilettante and aesthete who falls for ...

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Ann Arbor Media, 2006

A classic everyone should read!
This is one of a few classics of our time. When it was first published in 1857 it was consider a public scandal. Read en enjoy!

Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Editions)

Gustave Flaubert

W. W. Norton, 2004

Exceptional realist novel
What could anyone ask for when reading a work for a class in Realism than a novel that not only inspires one to keep reading, but also contains a transcript of a trial the author goes through on a charge he was lewd and lacivious in the writing of the story? ...

Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Penguin Classics, 2002

A Compelling, Complex, Classic
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?'" Sigmund Freud This is one unforgettable classic! I don't even know how to ...

A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

A superb translation of a perfect novel
This is simply one of the most satisfying novels I have ever read. And the Parmee translation is excellent - there is not an awkward word or phrase anywhere in the text. Flaubert loved to write fiction which captured the pettiness, baseness, and stupidity of human ...

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library Classics)

Gustave Flaubert

Modern Library, 2002

A Metatext
This is a work that should not be neglected by those interested in Flaubert or by lovers of French Literature. It's format resembles an old-fashioned cyclorama, which was basically a revolving canvas, portraying various interpretive images to an audience that would ...

Bouvard and Pécuchet

Gustave Flaubert

Dalkey Archive Press, 2005

Flaubert's brilliant unfinished novel in an excellent new edition
Flaubert's brilliant, and incomplete, final work (he died without completing its final couple of chapters, which exist only in outline form) has been long overdue for a new translation, and new packaging. While earlier versions always made the work look musty, the new ...

A Simple Heart (The Art of the Novella)

Gustave Flaubert, Charlotte Mandell

The Art of the Novella, 2004

Simple, realistic language - metaphysical result
Whether or not one enjoys the style of writing of Flaubert's period, this book is a masterpiece. In a handful of incidents with a maid's life, Flaubert provides us with a full character which exhibits a quiet, uneducated saintliness that weathers a life of significant ...

Madame Bovary (Clasicos de la literatura series)
Gustave Flaubert

Edimat Libros, 2007

For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. ...