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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
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 thei ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Vintage classics Europeans Series) by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Europeans Ser.
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Word Cloud Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
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 combined with the scandal surrounding the novel launched it into notoriety. The story ...Show more
Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
"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 of ...Show more
Sentimental Education by Gustave. Flaubert; Helen Constantine; Patrick Coleman (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also finds ...Show more
Sentimental Education The Story of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave, Parmee, Douglas
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Category: Classics
Simple Heart: Little Black Classics: Peguin 80s #45 by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ...Show more
Temptation of St Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library
This is a fantastical rendering of one night during which the monk is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn, this title includes an introduction by Michel Foucault, a commentary, notes and a reading group guide.
The Desert and the Dancing Girls by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books ...Show more