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Madame Bovary (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

When published in 1857, "Madame Bovary" was embraced by bourgeois women who claimed it spoke to the frustrations of their lives. Davis's landmark translation gives new life in English to Flaubert's masterwork.

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Madame Bovary (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author), Flaubert Gustave (Author)

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted [...]

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Salambo: High Priestess of Ancient Carthage (Audio book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author), Fred Williams (Reader / Narrator)

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Sentimental Education or the History of a Young Man. Vol. 1 (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. Sentimental Education was the last novel published during Flaubert's lifetime, praised by contemporaries George Sand, Emile Zola, and Henry James.

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Sentimental Education (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Frederic Moreau, a young man in search of excitement, falls in love with Mme Arnoux, a beautiful, dark haired older woman. His fascination will last a lifetime, as he works to become first an acquaintance of her husband, then a firm family friend. But Frederic's hard-won [...]

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Three Tales and Another (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French novelist and short story writer, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word ("le mot juste"), in every piece of literature he produced. Although Flaubert is remembered for his novels, most [...]

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Madame Bovary (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted [...]

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Madame Bovary (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs [...]

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Madame Bovary (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.

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Great French and Russian Short Stories, Volume 2 (Audio book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author), Alexander Poushkin (Author), Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)

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Great French and Russian Short Stories, Volume 2 (Audio book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author), Alexander Poushkin (Author), Alexander Pushkin (Author), Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author)

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Three Tales (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

A collection of three stories, which study the nature of humanity and spirituality.

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The Temptation of St. Antony (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

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. The Temptation of St. Antony (1874) is based on the story [...]

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The Temptation of St. Antony (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

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Bouvard and Pecuchet (Book)

Gustave Flaubert (Author)

The last work written by Flaubert that was not quite complete by his death in 1880, "Bouvard and Pecuchet" is his characteristically satirical work revolving around two Parisian copy-clerks. Though they meet on a park bench in the middle of a hot summer day, their [...]

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