Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife, has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, and high society. The disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life lead her into extramarital love affairs as well as causing her to accrue an insurmountable amount of debt. The book, loosely based on...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of the citadel, crowding...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Domi mansit, lanam fecit: He remained at home and wrote, is the first thing that should be said of Gustave Flaubert. This trait, which he shares with many of the writers of his generation, - Renan, Taine, Leconte de Lisle and Dumas fils, - distinguishes them...

[This work may be called a prose poem. It is impregnated with the spirit of romanticism, which at the time of writing had a temporary but powerful hold on the mind of Gustave Flaubert....

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