A crisp translation captures the psychological realism of the original and echoes the verbal precision for which Flaubert is rightly famed--with an apparatus of Flaubert's life and works
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 her wish. However, after their marriage, Emma soon becomes frustrated with the boredom of provincial life and finds herself seeking...
A crisp translation captures the psychological realism of the original and echoes the verbal precision for which Flaubert is rightly famed--with an...
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with intr...
Trois contes est le titre d'un recueil de trois nouvelles de Gustave Flaubert parues sous forme d'episodes dans deux journaux differents au cours du mois d'avril 1877 et publiees dans leur integralite le 24 avril 1877 par l'editeur Georges Charpentier. Cette uvre que Flaubert mit pres de 30 ans a ecrire dans sa totalite constitue sa derniere production romanesque achevee, puisqu'il devait mourir trois ans apres sa publication."
Trois contes est le titre d'un recueil de trois nouvelles de Gustave Flaubert parues sous forme d'episodes dans deux journaux differents au cours du m...
Gustave Flaubert, ne a Rouen le 12 decembre 1821 et mort a Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un ecrivain francais. Prosateur de premier plan de la deuxieme moitie du XIXe siecle, Gustave Flaubert a marque la litterature francaise par la profondeur de ses analyses psychologiques, son souci de realisme, son regard lucide sur les comportements des individus et de la societe, et par la force de son style a travers de grands romans comme Madame Bovary (1857), L Education Sentimentale (1869), Salammbo (1862), ou le recueil de nouvelles Trois Contes (1878). Le premier evenement...
Gustave Flaubert, ne a Rouen le 12 decembre 1821 et mort a Canteleu, au hameau de Croisset, le 8 mai 1880, est un ecrivain francais. Prosateur de prem...
Excerpt: ... Aside from you and Tourgueneff, I don't know a living being to whom to pour out my soul about those things which I have most at heart; and you live far away from me, both of you However, I continue to write. I have resolved to start at my Saint- Antoine tomorrow or the day after. But to begin a protracted effort I need a certain lightness which I lack just now. I hope, however, that this extravagant work is going to get hold of me. Oh how I would like not to think any more of my poor Moi, of my miserable carcass It is getting on very well, my carcass. I sleep tremendously ...
Excerpt: ... Aside from you and Tourgueneff, I don't know a living being to whom to pour out my soul about those things which I have most at heart; an...
