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2009

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is the classic tale of its title character, Emma Bovary, the wife of a doctor, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of her everyday life. Heralded as a seminal work of Realism, "Madame Bovary" is considered by many as one of the greatest novels ever written. Attacked for obscenity when it first appeared in Paris in 1856, "Madame Bovary" was an instant success for the author. His quest for literary....[more]

Salammbo

It was at Megara a suburb of Carthage in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx and as the master was away and they were numerous they ate and drank with perfect freedom. (Excerpt)

The Head of the House of Coombe

2009

Its opening incidents may be dated from a period when people still had reason to believe in permanency and had indeed many of them-sometimes through ingenuousness sometimes through stupidity of type-acquired a singular confidence in the importance and stability of their possessions desires ambitions and forms of conviction.

Three Tales

In each of three short stories"Herodias," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitator," and "A Simple Heart"Gustave Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality with his characteristically sharp eye. A loyal servant dies alone, having served her masters all her life without complaining of the tragic losses she suffered; a young man sanctified at birth is driven by bloodlust to inadvertently fulfill the curse placed on him; and John the Baptist endures his life mixed with curses and bl....[more]

Bouvard and Pecuchet

1979

"Considered Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece, Bouvard and Pecuchet opens with two middle-aged copy-clerks who become fast friends after meeting on a city bench and discovering their shared habit of writing their names in their hats: "I should say so! Someone could walk off with mine at the office!" When a small inheritance allows Bouvard and Pecuchet to retire early and move to the country, they use their newfound leisure time to satisfy their curiosity about all the things they'd been too busy to....[more]

Sentimental Education

1972

Based on Flauberts own youthful passion for an older woman, "Sentimental Education" was described by its author as the moral history of the men of my generation. It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re....[more]

Trois Contes

Correspondance

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

2006

A Sentimental Education : The Story of a Young Man

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux.

L' ╔ducation Sentimentale

A Simple Soul

2003

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist born in 1821. He played a major role in the ?realist school? in French literature. His best-known work was Madame Bovary, which led to a trial on the novel?s alleged immorality. A Simple Soul is the story of Madame Aubain who was envied by her neighbors for her maid Felicite who worked very hard for her for a small wage. When Madame became a widow she was forced to move back to her ancestral home. This simple tale captures the attitudes of Felicite toward h....[more]

La Tentation de Saint Antoine

Herodias

2004

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist born in 1821. He played a major role in the ?realist school? in French literature. His best-known work was Madame Bovary which led to a trial on the novel?s alleged immorality. Herodias tells the story of the execution of John the Baptist. This ornate yet realistic tale tells the story of Judaea and Rome. Herod and Herodias are feasting when they hear in the background from the cistern the imprecations of John the Baptist. After John is executed Salome danc....[more]

Over Strand and Field

1995

The Temptation of St. Anthony

1978

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translatio....[more]