Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert's Books and Stories

Bouvard and Pécuchet, part 2

Literature

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Bouvard and Pécuchet, part 2 by Gustave Flaubert

Three short works / The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul.

Literature

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The three works in this book are each strikingly different. Death, Satan and Nero (the fifth Roman emperor) converse in a prose poem; a Medieval saint encounters trial and struggle before attaining divinity; the life of a selfless maid in 19th-century France shows the horror of true altruism.

Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany

Literature

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Gustave Flaubert was a prominent French writer in the 19th century.  Flaubert, who wrote the classic novel Madame Bovary, was a significant contributor to literary realism.  This edition of Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany includes a table of contents.

La tentation de Saint Antoine

Literature

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Classic novel first published in 1848, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "The Temptation of Saint Anthony (French La Tentation de Saint Antoine) is a book which the French author Gustave Flaubert spent practically his whole life fitfully working on, in three versions he completed in 1849, 1856 (extracts published at the same time) and 1872 before publishing the final version in 1874. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in the Egyptian desert, a theme often repeated in medieval and modern art. It is written in the form of a play script. It details one night in the life of Anthony the Great where Anthony is faced with great temptations, and it was inspired by the painting, which he saw at the Balbi Palace in Genoa. It was this work, rather than his better known Madame Bovary, that Flaubert considered his masterwork."