Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

"Madame Bovary" is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary became notorious and a bestseller after Gustave Flaubert was acquitted from charges of obscenity in 1856. It details the many adulterous affairs and extravagances of Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's...

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Gustave Flaubert & Lydia Davis

The must-have deluxe edition of the fantastically acclaimed new translation of one of the world's most celebrated novels.

Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly...

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work, before releasing this final version in 1874. Written in a play script form, The Temptation of Saint Anthony describes...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary is a bored housewife who indulges her romantic fantasies with a series of adulterous affairs. Charged with obscenity when first published, the novel became a literary scandal and a bestseller.

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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Set amid the stifling atmosphere of nineteenth-century bourgeois France, Madame Bovary is at once an unsparing depiction of a woman's gradual corruption and a savagely ironic study of human shallowness and stupidity....

Salammbo

by Gustave Flaubert

"Salammbo" is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the third century BCE, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War....

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

"Sentimental Education" is considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, being praised by contemporaries George Sand, Emile Zola, and Henry James. The novel describes the life of a young...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest novelists of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful wordsmithing...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Charles Bovary, a mediocre and dull man, has his life planned out for him by his mother. She marries him to a widow, who dies shortly after marriage. He then falls in love with Emma, who has fantasies about...

Madame Bovary: A Play in Three Acts

by Gaston Baty & Gustave Flaubert

Based on the classic novel by Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary tells the tale of Emma Bovary, who is romantic by nature, and believes herself the equal of the heroines depicted in the romantic novels she reads....

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

by Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn & Michel Foucault

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...

Bouvard and Pécuchet

by Gustave Flaubert

"Bouvard and Pécuchet" is a satirical work by Gustave Flaubert. "Bouvard and Pécuchet" details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard and Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet,...