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The Desert and the Dancing Girls (2005)
by Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, portraying a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage, was published in 1857. Combining letters to his mother and friends with personal notes, this volume reconstructs Flaubert's formative journey to... (learn more about this book)
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The George Sand and Gustave Flaubert Letters (1993)
by Gustave Flaubert, George Sand
The George Sand and Gustave Flaubert Letters is a book written by George Sand and Gustave Flaubert . It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The George Sand and Gustave Flaubert... (learn more about this book)
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Flaubert & Turgenev : a friendship in letters : the complete correspondence (1985)
by Gustave Flaubert
Translated from the French. Description: 197p. ; 25cm. Subjects: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 - Biography. Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich 1818-1883 - Biography. Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 - Translations, English. Novelists, French - 19th century - Biography. (learn more about this book)
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Saint/Oedipus : psychocritical approaches to Flaubert's art (1982)
by Gustave Flaubert, William J. Berg
In Saint/Oedipus, three practioners of psychocriticism take a close look at Flaubert's powerful and problematic story. Focusing on recurrent patterns of the text, their essays not only shed light on the work itself by constitute an expert introduction to the methods of psychoanalytic criticism.... (learn more about this book)
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The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880 (1981)
by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller
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... (learn more about this book)
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Flaubert in Egypt : A Sensibility on Tour (1972)
by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller
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,... (learn more about this book)
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Three Tales (1877)
A Simple Heart / The Legend of St. Julian Hospitator / Herodias
by Gustave Flaubert
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience—together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. "A Simple Heart" relates the story of Félicité, an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic... (learn more about this book)
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
by Gustave Flaubert
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... (learn more about this book)
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Sentimental Education (1869)
by Gustave Flaubert
Based on Flaubert’s 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... (learn more about this book)
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