âThe best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.â â Merve Emre, The New Yorker
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literatureâ...
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter...
At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a âsensibility on tour,â Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writerâs impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diarie...
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experienceâtogether they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. âA Simple Heartâ...
This novel 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.
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in...