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The Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert - Featuring Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy De Maupassant Virginia Woolf Henry James - cover

The Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert - Featuring Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy De Maupassant Virginia Woolf Henry James

إدموندو دي اميجي

Translator Eleanor Marx-Aveling

Publisher: Musaicum Books

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Summary

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of Gustave Flaubert's renowned novels, plays & essays. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels: Madame Bovary Salammbô Bouvard and Pécuchet Sentimental Education The Temptation of Saint Anthony Short Stories: November A Simple Heart Saint Julian the Hospitalier Herodias The Dance of Death Studies and Literary Criticism: Gustave Flaubert: A Study by Guy de Maupassant Extracts from Virginia Woolf's diary Extract from 'Essays in London and Elsewhere' by Henry James Extracts from 'Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers' by D.H. Lawrence Extract from 'Figures of Several Countries' by Arthur Symons Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Salammbô is a historical novel, set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. Sentimental Education is an autobiographical novel, considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, being praised by contemporaries George Sand, Émile Zola, and Henry James.
Available since: 06/21/2017.
Print length: 1554 pages.

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