Gustave Flaubert: 464 books

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Mademoiselle Rachel de Gustave Flaubert augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez instantanément...

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 friendship grows to a remarkable degree,...

Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures...

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes et chronologie) Novembre, écrit au cours des années 1841-1842, est une bonne initiation à l'oeuvre de Flaubert. Il s'agit d'un texte de jeunesse hanté par les thèmes romantiques - exaltation de soi, aspiration à l'infini, sentiment de la solitude et...

In A Simple Heart (A Simple Soul), the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's...

Une période où Flaubert ne va pas bien. Échecs relatifs de ses livres, et la petite fortune qui lui permettait d'être à l'abri des misères du siècle, bien écornée par le soutien à apporter à sa nièce Caroline, qu'il a élevée. C'est dans ce passage à vide, avant le grand rebond...

Décryptez Bouvard et Pécuchet avec l'analyse de Paideia éducation ! Que faut-il retenir de ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature française ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir du roman de Flaubert dans une analyse de référence pour comprendre rapidement le sens de l'oeuvre. Rédigée...

The protagonist in Gustave Flauberts A Simple Soul is a housemaid named Félicité who devotes her entire existence to serving her mistress, Madame Aubain. Félicité is depicted as a simple, hardworking woman of great character and endless loving power. Despite her very miserable youth, being harshly...

Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more...

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...

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 fantastical...

Un simple drama local sirvió a Flaubert para iniciar un trabajo de creación «sobre nada», que tuvo por fruto una de las novelas capitales de la literatura: con esa nada, Flaubert construyó no sólo un personaje, sino un modelo  de mujer que resume los dramas íntimos de muchas mujeres educadas...

Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels. Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every level. There is something farcical in his depiction of characters...

This trio of short stories by the author of Madame Bovary were the last of Flaubert's works published in his lifetime, and their ambitious range reaches from the 19th century back to the Middle Ages and to ancient Israel. "A Simple Heart," in Flaubert's own words, "is just the account of an obscure life,...