BOOKS by Gustave Flaubert

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1	Madame Bovary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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	Sentimental education more books like this by Gustave Flaubert Based on Flaubertas own youthful passion for an older woman, "Sentimental Education" was described by its author as athe moral history of the men of my generation.a 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Introduction by) 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 $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Madame Bovary more books like this by Flaubert Gustave Flaubert 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 $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Three tales more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Mildred Marmur (Translator), Robin Morgan (Introduction by) Set amidst the stifling atmosphere of 19th-century bourgeois France, Flaubert's classic is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human stupidity. This repackaged edition features a new Introduction by leading feminist Robin Morgan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
7	Bouvard and Pécuchet more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $3.25! new only from $10.28! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Salammbo more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $2.00! new only from $3.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sentimental Education: 4 more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Robert Baldick (Translator) Frederic Moreau, a moderately gifted young provincial, is ambitious in many ways: he dreams of fame, of vast wealth, of literary and artistic achievement, of a grand passion. On the Paris paddle-steamer which transports him to his home town of Nogent-sur-Seine at the outset of the novel, he becomes transfixed by the demure Madame Arnoux and, back ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Trois Contes more books like this by G Flaubert 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 $5.30! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Madame Bovary: 2a Story of Provincial Life more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Alan Russell (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $69.82! \| first editions
12 view cover	Salambo more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $19.29! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The temptation of Saint Anthony more books like this by Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, "Madame Bovary" (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style. see all copies from $9.72! new only from $12.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (Editor) 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 $3.75! new only from $7.50! \| first editions
15 view cover	Madame Bovary : life in a country town more books like this by Gustave Flaubert This translation is Gerard Hopkins's 1949 classic rendition of Flaubert's great novel. It is supplemented by an luminous introduction by Anita Brookner. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Dictionary of Accepted Ideas more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $5.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Bouvard and Pecuchet with the Dictionary of Accepted Ideas more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Alban J Krailsheimer (Translator) Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritence, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. see all copies from $3.04! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
18 view cover	Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon (Translator), Professor Malcolm Bowie (Introduction by) 'Would this misery go on forever? Was there no escape? And yet she was every bit as good as all those other women who led happy lives!' When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.39! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Temptation of St. Anthony by Gustave Flaubert, Professor Lafcadio Hearn (Translator) 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 $17.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	November more books like this by Gustave Flaubert see all copies from $3.30! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters more books like this by George Sand, pse 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 $1.99! new only from $16.72! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857: Francis Steegmuller, Sel., Ed., and Tr. more books like this by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (Photographer) Flaubert wrote to his mistress, Louise Colet: "An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." In his books, Flaubert sought to observe that principle; but in his many impassioned letters he allowed his feelings to overflow, revealing himself in all of his human complexity. Sensuous, witty, exalted, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $185.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $7.64! \| first editions
24	L'éducation sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert see all copies from $3.41! new only from $11.45! \| SVS
25 view cover	A Simple Heart more books like this by Gustave Flaubert 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 $6.00! \| SVS

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