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The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads...
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Language
English
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Geoffrey Wall gives us Flaubert in all his contradictory splendor: as a man who lived quietly at home in the sphere of his widowed mother, writing novels at a rate of five words an hour; as an irregular visitor to Paris, where he participated in important literary and social milieus; and as a passionate traveler whose trips put him in company with courtesans, actresses, acrobats, gypsies, idiots, and simpletons of every stripe, until he returned home...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated. Yet his year was only going to get worse. The summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871 would come to be known as the "Terrible Year" in France. France suffered a humiliating defeat in their war...
Series
Twentieth century views volume S-TC-42
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1964]
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A study of Flaubert's refinement of symbolism and realism as stylistic techniques in the novel. Eminent writers analyze Madame Bovary, Salammbo, and L'Education Sentimentale for insight into Flaubert's impact on modern literature.
Author
Series
Yale studies in English volume 172
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
ix, 284 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
449 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by their 1850 journey up the Nile imagines shared encounters between Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, during which they overcame considerable differences to forge a bond of intelligence, humor, and passion.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 348
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
xxvii, 449 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Flaubert's parrot: Relates a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters. History of the world in 10 1/2 chapters: An eccentiric, playfully skewed, surprisingly comprehensive chronicle of life on planet Earth. A novel whose threads of coincidence and hidden connection are woven into a narrative tapestry brilliant with wit,...
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide (56 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
In this series of lectures, Professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries. Professor Elkins discusses the attributes that made classics of such works as Balzac's Human comedy, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Proust's In search of lost time, and Camus' The stranger. Literary immortals all, these four French authors produced works that reflected their times and exerted a continuing and lasting...
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