Gustave Flaubert: 464 books

Herodias holds a huge birthday celebration for her second husband, Herod Antipas. Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John. According to Flaubert, this plan entails making her husband fall in love with her daughter, Salome, leading to him promising her whatever she wants.

The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences including the romantic passion on his own life. 'I want to write the moral history of the...

First published in 1869, this deliberately written work follows the ambitions and whims of the young Frédéric Moreau as he travels from his provincial hometown to the enticing metropolis of Paris. Though he survived the Revolution of 1848, Moreau is still prone to all the mistakes and petty concerns...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! "A Simple Heart", also called Un cœur simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid...

O "romance dos romances", Madame Bovary apresenta-se aqui naquela que é considerada a melhor tradução em língua portuguesa, no brilhante trabalho de Fúlvia Moretto, que também assina a introdução e as notas. Quando de sua publicação em folhetim, o livro provocou um impacto transformador...

Drie vertellingen wordt beschouwd als het hoogtepunt in Flauberts vertelkunst. ‘Een eenvoudig hart’, 'De legende van de heilige Julianus de gastvrije' en ‘Herodias’ getuigen stuk voor stuk van de intense verwondering waarmee de schrijver aan het eind van zijn leven nog steeds naar de medemens...

Un dramma borghese, la storia di un adulterio raccontato da uno scrittore che odiava la borghesia: quella vissuta dalla protagonista è una vita banale, come tante altre, che permette però a Flaubert di mettersi alla prova e dimostrare che è possibile scrivere un'opera d'arte sul nulla.

"A Simple Heart", also called Un cour simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm she works on and heads for Pont-l'Éveque...

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 Arnoux, a slender,...

Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues est un ouvrage inachevé auquel Flaubert travailla en marge de son dernier roman Bouvard et Pécuchet, portant sur la bêtise. Ainsi, ce « non dictionnaire » propose une définition décalée et amusante de quelques centaines de mots et noms propres. Le ton ironique...

Gustave Flauber is a french writer-realist. He spent a lot of time trying to find his style in literature. Also he made a theory of the "correct word". "Sentimental Education" is a story of a very gifted boy Frederic Moreau. After studiyng in the unevirsity he was traveling back...

Zwei ehemalige Pariser Büroangestellte, durch eine Erbschaft finanziell unabhängig geworden, ziehen aufs Land, entdecken dort ihren Intellekt und widmen sich nun den großen Themen ihrer Zeit sowie den Wissenschaften. Und das in rascher Folge. Egal, wie komplex ein Zusammenhang auch sein mag, Bouvard...

Salambo schildert eindrucksvoll und in exotisch-drastischen Ausführungen, wie die Tochter des karthagischen Feldherrn Hamilkar Barkas während den Söldneraufstands in Nordafrika nach der Niederlage Karthagos im Ersten Punischen Krieg ihre Stadt rettet. Zum unbestrittenen Kanon der Weltliteratur...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faitful to her mistress - although...