Gustave Flaubert

This is a new translation by Adam Thorpe. 'A great novel that is also an inexhaustible pleasure to read'. Guardian Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with her well-meaning husband in the provinces leaves...

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...

Kuszenie świętego Antoniego, wybitnego francuskiego pisarza Gustave Flauberta, mające swoją długą historię i aż trzy wersje (1849, 1856 i 1872) jest bezcennym dziełem nie tylko z punktu widzenia literackiego, ale również ezoterycznego. Flaubert, podobnie jak Balzak, był nieświadomym okultystą. To, co w potocznym języku nazywamy mianem wyobraźni,...

Dzieło Gustawa Flauberta. Gustaw Flaubert to powieściopisarz francuski. Zadebiutował dwoma utworami młodzieńczymi o treści erotycznej: "Les memories d'un fou" w 1838r i "Novembre" w 1842r...

A new translation by Adam Thorpe Gustave Flaubert once said of his heroine, ';Emma Bovary, c'est moi.' In this acclaimed new translation, Adam Thorpe brings readers closer than ever before to Flaubert's peerless text and, by extension, the author himself.  Emma, a passionate dreamer raised in the French countryside, is...

The story of a Young ManSet against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer FrA(c)dA(c)ric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux....