Gustave Flaubert Books In Order

Novels

  1. November (1842)
  2. Madame Bovary (1856)
  3. Salammbo (1862)
  4. A Sentimental Education (1869)
  5. The Candidate (1874)
  6. The Temptation of Saint Antony (1874)
  7. Bouvard and Pacuchet (1881)

Collections

  1. Three Tales (1872)
  2. Golden Tales from Flaubert (1977)
  3. Early Writings (1991)
  4. Best Known Works of Gustave Flaubert (2004)

Chapbooks

  1. A Simple Soul (1877)
  2. A Simple Heart (1995)

Novellas

  1. Herodias (1877)

Non fiction

  1. The George Sand and Gustave Flaubert Letters (1950)
  2. Selected Letters (1953)
  3. Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (1954)
  4. Flaubert’s Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (1968)
  5. Flaubert in Egypt (1972)
  6. Madame Bovary and the Trial of Flaubert (1976)
  7. The Letters: 1830-57 v. 1 (1980)
  8. The Letters: 1857-80 v. 2 (1982)
  9. A Friendship in Letters (1985)
  10. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence (1993)
  11. The Dictionary of Received Ideas (1994)
  12. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880 (2001)
  13. Traveling Through Brittany (2002)
  14. A Dictionary of Idiocy (2003)
  15. Selected Correspondence with an Intimate Study of the Author (2003)

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Gustave Flaubert Books Overview

November

An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert’s November explores the notions of desire and longing to most remarkable effect. Foreword by Nadine Gordimer. Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a young man withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life. His increasing hopelessness gives way to a yearning for romance surely the love of a woman can deliver him the purpose he so craves? Convinced of the truth of this, he visits Marie, a kindhearted prostitute yet Marie, too, is starved of love and longs for acceptance. Together, they form a tragic portrait of personal anguish, heralding the extraordinary outpouring of romantic longing found in Flaubert’s later novels. Most famous for Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert 1821 80 is one of the undisputed masters of 19th century fiction.

Madame Bovary

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of 19th century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Flaubert’s legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, his unmatched ability to convey a mental world through the careful selection of telling details, shine on every page of this marvelous work. Now the award winning translator Margaret Mauldon has produced a modern translation of this classic novel, one that perfectly captures the tone that makes Flaubert’s style so distinct and admired. Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty headed Emma Rouault. When Emma 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 an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. Malcolm Bowie, a leading authority on French literature, explores Flaubert’s genius in his masterly introduction to this must have book for all lovers of great literature. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Salammbo

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Salammbo‘ is a brilliant narrative that amalgamates history with fiction. It depicts the action that took place during Mercenary Revolt against Carthage. Salammbo, the female protagonist falls a prey to the lecherous nature of Matho, leader of mercenaries. An interesting and insightful story about death, turmoil, bloodshed and agony that accompanies war. A must read!

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A Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.
Considered one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century, Sentimental Education blends brilliantly realized details of a tumultuous time and place with the intimate story of a lifelong romantic obsession, one that closely mirrors the central passion of Flaubert‘s own life.

Set amid the violent social upheaval of the Revolution of 1848, the novel tells of young Fr d ric Moreau s idealistic attraction to a married woman some years his senior. Smitten by his first sight of Madame Arnoux, Fr d ric idolizes her for many years, despite her refusal to encourage him and his own indecision. He befriends her husband, an art dealer, in order to be near her, and soon finds himself drawn first into Jacques Arnoux s heady social circle and then into his disastrous financial speculations.

As a young teenager, Flaubert himself became romantically obsessed with a married woman with whom he kept in touch for the rest of his life, and many of the characters in Sentimental Education, including Madame Arnoux, are based on friends and acquaintances of the great French author. In this vivid novel, all are beset by financial difficulties, ideological conflicts, and friendship betrayed as their lives are changed forever by the revolution.

Claudie Bernard is Professor of French literature at New York University, and the author of Le Chouan Romanesque, Balzac, Barbey d Aurevilly, Hugo, Le Pass recompos , le roman historique fran ais au dix neuvi me si cle, and of many essays on nineteenth century French literature and the history of ideas.

The Temptation of Saint Antony

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 rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls a splendid period piece from one of America s premier translators of nineteenth century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn s Latinate rendering, Flaubert s experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original.

Bouvard and Pacuchet

Part II of Bouvard and Pecuchet also includes several bonus shorts: the play ‘The Dance of Death,’ an essay on Rabelais, and other non fiction. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 1821 1880 was the son of a French surgeon. He studied law in Paris but soon returned to his hometown Croisset, near Rouen to devote his life to writing. He is the author of the immortal Madame Bovary 1856, a novel about the loves and frustrations of a romantic woman married to a provincial dullard. The book was criticized for immorality and prosecuted, but Flaubert won the case. Of the extremely well realized hero*ine, he once remarked, ‘I am her.’ The novel is one of the greatest explorations of a female character by a male writer, in all of literature. Among Flaubert’s other notable works are Salammbo 1863, a historical romance of ancient Carthage which influenced Robert E. Howard the author of the Conan series, and The Temptation of Saint Anthony, which was translated into vivid, almost hallucinogenic English prose by Lafcadio Hearn. Flaubert also wrote plays, short stories, and the long satire Bouvard and Pecuchet. His life was outwardly uneventful, but full. He was heavily influenced by several women, including his mother, a mistress, and a woman ten years his senior with whom he fell in love as a young man. He travelled to North Africa and the Middle East in 1851. He received honors from the emperor Napoleon III. Among his friends and associates were Emile Zola, George Sand, and the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. His work is characterized by criticism of small town bourgois values, a curious tendency to romanticism, a fondness for the exotic, and a dedication to the then rising Realist movement, with its dedication to depicting life as it is, without judgment.

Three Tales

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Three Tales is a remarkable collection of fictional tour de force presented by Flaubert. It portrays three different aspects of life simultaneously contemporary, religious and historical. These stories are a beautiful amalgamation of sentiments such as love, solitude, and passion for religion. Engrossing!

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Early Writings

No history of literature could afford to overlook Gustave Flaubert, the meticulous craftsman whose Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education are enduring classics. His finished novels are easily available, but his earliest works have been the private province of professional scholars. Early Writings is the first English translation of Flaubert’s astonishing juvenilia, astonishing not only because of its glimmers of genius but also because of its fantasy. Now readers will be able to see the contours of Flaubert s career more fully; no note how much effort he took to learn and unlearn, to overcome and suppress. The eleven essays ad tales in this collection include about half of Flaubert s early experiments in writing. They reveal the eye of a precocious artist who used everything from routine newspaper accounts to the psychopathology of his everyday life as material for fiction. His transformation of reality is best exemplified by Diary of a Madman, based on a chance encounter of the pubescent Gustave with Elisa Schlesinger at Trouville during the summer of 1836. The range of his youthful imagination is illustrated by pieces in the Byronic mold, by caricature of philistine values, epic scenes, metaphysical themes, the fantastic genre of the wild tale, and psychological studies that anticipate his larger portrayals of character. Early Writings reveals the young writer working toward more complex tableaux, increasingly preoccupied with the tension between language and art, medium and ideal. From the beginning Flaubert was obsessed by the daunting task of making language eternalize fleeting perceptions.

A Simple Soul

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library Literary Society is a non profit educational organization. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG For half a century the housewives of Pont l’Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress although the latter was by no means an agreeable person. Madame Aubain had married a comely youth without any money, who died in the beginning of 1809, leaving her with two young children and a number of debts. She sold all her property excepting the farm of Toucques and the farm of Geffosses, the income of which barely amounted to 5,000 francs; then she left her house in Saint Melaine, and moved into a less pretentious one which had belonged to her ancestors and stood back of the market place. This house, with its slate covered roof, was built between a passage way and a narrow street that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near the window. Eight mahogany chairs stood in a row against the white wainscoting. An old piano, standing beneath a barometer, was covered with a pyramid of old books and boxes. On either side of the yellow marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden.

A Simple Heart

Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale.

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Herodias

Gustave Flaubert 1821 1880 was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary 1857, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for ‘le mot juste’ ‘the precise word’. In September 1849, he completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony. In 1858, he travelled to Carthage to gather material for his next novel, Salammbo 1862. It is now commonly admitted that he was one of the greatest writers who ever lived in France and his greatness principally depends upon the extraordinary vigour and exactitude of his style. His private letters show that he was not one of those to whom easy and correct language came naturally; he gained his extraordinary perfection with the unceasing sweat of his brow. Many critics consider Flaubert’s best works to be models of style. His other works include Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany 1904, Herodias 1877 and A Simple Soul 1877.

The George Sand and Gustave Flaubert Letters

Originally published in 1921. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Selected Letters

This is a new translation selecting from the voluminous 4 volume Pleiade edition of Flaubert’s ‘Correspondence’. This edition will generally seek to represent complete letters rather than extracts.

Flaubert in Egypt

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a ‘sensibility on tour’, Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer’s impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert’s travelling companion, Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs his journey through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.

The Letters: 1830-57 v. 1

Flaubert wrote to his mistress, Louise Colet: ‘An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.’ In his books, Flaubert sought to observe that principle; but in his many impassioned letters he allowed his feelings to overflow, revealing himself in all of his human complexity. Sensuous, witty, exalted, ironic, grave, analytical, the letters illustrate the artist’s life and they trumpet his artistic opinions in an outpouring of uninhibited eloquence. An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert’s letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer’s life and times. We follow Flaubert through his unhappy years at law school, through his tumultuous affair with Louise Colet; we share his days and nights amid the temples and brothels of Egypt, then on to Palestine, Turkey, Greece, and Rome. And the letters chronicle one of the central events in literary history the conception and composition of what has been called the first modern novel, Madame Bovary. Steegmuller’s selection concludes with Flaubert’s standing trial for immoral writing, Madame Bovary’s immediate popular success, and Baudelaire’s celebration of its psychological and literary power. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert’s own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. ‘Let us sing to Apollo as in ancient days,’ he wrote to Louise Colet, ‘and breathe deeply of the fresh cold air of Parnassus; let us strum our guitars and clash our cymbals and whirl like dervishes in the eternal hubbub of forms and ideas!’ Flaubert’s letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.

The Letters: 1857-80 v. 2

Flaubert wrote to his mistress, Louise Colet: ‘An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.’ In his books, Flaubert sought to observe that principle; but in his many impassioned letters he allowed his feelings to overflow, revealing himself in all of his human complexity. Sensuous, witty, exalted, ironic, grave, analytical, the letters illustrate the artist’s life and they trumpet his artistic opinions in an outpouring of uninhibited eloquence. An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert’s letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer’s life and times. We follow Flaubert through his unhappy years at law school, through his tumultuous affair with Louise Colet; we share his days and nights amid the temples and brothels of Egypt, then on to Palestine, Turkey, Greece, and Rome. And the letters chronicle one of the central events in literary history the conception and composition of what has been called the first modern novel, Madame Bovary. Steegmuller’s selection concludes with Flaubert’s standing trial for immoral writing, Madame Bovary’s immediate popular success, and Baudelaire’s celebration of its psychological and literary power. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert’s own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. ‘Let us sing to Apollo as in ancient days,’ he wrote to Louise Colet, ‘and breathe deeply of the fresh cold air of Parnassus; let us strum our guitars and clash our cymbals and whirl like dervishes in the eternal hubbub of forms and ideas!’ Flaubert’s letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.

The Dictionary of Received Ideas

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, ‘The Dictionary of Received Ideas‘ sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel ‘Bouvard and Pecuchet’, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched, and providing darkly humorous explanations. An insightful and playful look at nineteenth century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant today.

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1880

Any reader should find here something of interest in Gustave Flaubert’s letters, whether it be the intimate revelations of an original mind, the rich portrait of a time and place or the linguistic and stylistic brilliance of a great writer. The reader learns of the young Flaubert, unhappy at school, tormented as a lover. We travel with him to the temples and brothels of Egypt; to Palestine, Turkey, and then later to Tunisia. They witness the genesis of some of the most remarkable literature of the 19th century, and on until his financially secure old age. Selected and translated by Franics Steegmuller, and with footnotes, this edition is a companion and introduction to Flaubert’s work.

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