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1	Madame Bovary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist This book comes with an introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist 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 passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.10! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Madame Bovary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made it notorious. After the acquittal on 7 February, it became a bestseller in book form in April 1857, and now ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.77! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Three tales more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, A Simple Heart' relates the story of Felicite - an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sentimental education more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist "Sentimental Education" begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Salammbo more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Trois Contes more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist These three stories include "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," in which the hero is rescued from his humanity and its consequences by the grace of God; "A Simple Heart," one of Flaubert's most celebrated stories, in which a poor country woman who leads an exemplary life becomes obsessively devoted to her parrot, even after its death; ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (Editor) add to wishlist 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 Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sentimental Education: 4 more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Robert Baldick (Translator) add to wishlist This novel of love and growing disillusionment is about the romantic attachment of a young man for an older woman; its subtext is an examination of the consequences of moral compromise and indifference. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	L'éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.39! \| SVS
11	Bouvard and Pécuchet more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Unfinished at his death, Flaubert's final work is a vastly funny satire of the intellectual and moral pretensions of 19th-century French bourgeois society. It features two Chaplinesque clerks who, with the help of a surprise legacy, attempt to scale the heights of knowledge--only to discover an abyss of stupidity. see all copies from $3.58! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Salambo more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Beyond the gardens of Hamilcar's palace, beyond the walls of Carthage stood the Roman hordes, waiting to annihilate the noblest city of ancient Africa. Within the city all was madness -- the houses were filled with the screams of women and the streets teemed with terrified men. The veil of the goddess Tanit, sacred, to Carthage, had fallen to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.71! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Gustave Flaubert more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Edimat Libros (Creator) add to wishlist The classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. A wonderful introduction to world literature, this finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience. Includes "Madame Bovary" and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony," see all copies from $2.94! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, Professor Lafcadio Hearn (Translator) add to wishlist Fascinated for years with the life of the Egyptian anchorite known as St. Anthony (b. 250 A.D.), Flaubert spent 25 years writing his own version. His disturbing fragmented chronicle, mostly in dialogue, stresses the difficulties of the spiritual life, presenting a deeply flawed saint--bitter, greedy, and sadistic--plagued by demons both internal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.41! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15	Un Coeur Simple more books like this by G Flaubert add to wishlist see all copies from $2.34! new only from $8.62!
16 view cover	Bouvard Et Pecuchet more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Gustave Flaubert, n Rouen le 12 dcembre 1821 et mort Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un crivain franais. Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxime moiti du XIXe sicle, Gustave Flaubert a marqu la littrature franaise par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de ralisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Douglas Parmee (Editor) add to wishlist Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Fr 'ed 'eric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. This book is intended for general; courses on French nineteenth-century novel; on the social novel; on irony Edited and translated by: Parmee, Douglas; see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
18	Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Described by Henry James as 'one of the first of the classics' and so regarded ever since, MADAME BOVARY has touched generations of readers and moulded generations of writers. The story of a little woman in a provincial town who dreams of happiness and then perishes by her own hand is worked up by Flaubant into a profound and heart rending study ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.91!
19	Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Flaubert's portrait of an adulteress who seeks freedom from a prosaic, disappointing life and ultimately is destroyed by her selfishness was considered scandalous when it was published. Flaubert chose his subject to illustrate his belief that any aspect of life, however trivial or vulgar, could be a subject for literature, and could be raised to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.16! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Dictionary of Accepted Ideas more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist THE DICTIONARY OF RECEIVED IDEAS, first published in 1913, was Flaubert's unfinished companion volume to BOUVARD AND PECOCHET, and was to include "everything one should say if one is to be considered a decent and likable member of society." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Madame Bovary; moeurs de province. Éd. augm. d'une chronologie. [Texte, suivi des réquisitoire, plaidoirie, et jugement du procès intenté à l'auteur. more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Édouard Maynial add to wishlist see all copies from $5.99! first editions
22 view cover	The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters more books like this by George Sand, pse add to wishlist George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1804 -1876). She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. Her first published novel, ... see all copies from $2.30! new only from $16.60! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Early Writings of Gustave Flaubert more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Robert B Griffin (Translator) add to wishlist No history of literature could afford to overlook Gustave Flaubert, the meticulous craftsman whose "Madame Bovary" and "Sentimental Education" are enduring classics. His finished novels are easily available, but his earliest works have been the private province of professional scholars. "Early Writings" is the first English translation of Flaubert ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
24	The temptation of Saint Antony more books like this by Gustave Flaubert add to wishlist Fascinated for years with the life of the Egyptian anchorite known as St. Anthony (b. 250 A.D.), Flaubert spent 25 years writing his own version. His disturbing, fragmented chronicle, mostly in dialogue, stresses the difficulties of the spiritual life, presenting a deeply flawed saint--bitter, greedy, and sadistic--plagued by demons both internal ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	A Simple Heart more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Charlotte Mandell (Translator) add to wishlist One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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