Gustave Flaubert

French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his "Madame Bovary", his first published novel and the one...

Félicité is a French maid, who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, Félicité is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives. In nineteenth-century France, Félicité works as a loyal housemaid to her mistress, Madame Aubain. She tends to her two children and is a constant source of support for the family....

Par un chaud dimanche d'été, près du bassin du port de l'Arsenal, sur le boulevard Bourdon, à Paris, deux promeneurs, Bouvard et Pécuchet, se rencontrent par hasard sur un banc public et font connaissance. Ils s'aperçoivent qu'ils ont eu tous deux l'idée d'écrire leur nom dans leur chapeau : « Alors ils se considérèrent. ». Tombés sous le charme l'un de l'autre, Bouvard et Pécuchet découvrent que non seulement ils exercent le même...

First published in French in 1877, "Three Tales" is a collection of three short stories by the celebrated French novelist Gustave Flaubert. The first story in this collection "A Simple Soul" is a story of love and spiritual awakening seen through the simple and apparently unremarkable life of a servant girl. While she has little materially, she retains her ability to love and is devoted to others. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitalier" is an...

Une édition de référence de Trois Contes de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Elle avait eu, comme une autre, son histoire d'amour. […] Un soir du mois d'août (elle avait alors dix-huit ans), ils l'entraînèrent à l'assemblée de Colleville. Tout de suite, elle fut étourdie, stupéfaite par le tapage des ménétriers, les lumières dans les arbres, la bigarrure des costumes, les dentelles,...

The last work written by Flaubert that was not quite complete by his death in 1880, "Bouvard and Pecuchet" is his characteristically satirical work revolving around two Parisian copy-clerks. Though they meet on a park bench in the middle of a hot summer day, their friendship grows to a remarkable degree, so much so that when one receives an unexpected inheritance, they both decide to dedicate themselves to the exploration of ideas in the countryside....

La antigua crítica los asqueaba, quisieron conocer la nueva y se hicieron enviar las reseñas de las piezas en los diarios. ¡Qué aplomo! ¡Qué terquedad! ¡Qué falta de probidad! ¡Ultrajes a las obras maestras, reverencias para las banalidades, y las burradas de los que pasan por sabios, y la estupidez de los otros, a los que se proclama espirituales! ¿Habría tal vez que remitirse al público? Pero las obras festejadas muchas veces les desagradaban,...

El espectáculo que nos entrega Flaubert es la historia de un joven provinciano, idealista y enamoradizo que se desdibuia en el devenir de sus días en París entre miserias personales, desilusiones cobradas con bajezas y la pudiente sociedad burguesa retratada en sus fiestas extravagantes, amoríos, adulterios... Al final, el desencanto de una vida.

Publicado em 1862, «Salambo» evoca a civilização cartaginesa, aquando da revolta dos mercenários que se seguiu à primeira guerra púnica. Mais do que um romance histórico, esta obra surge como uma sucessão de momentos estéticos pintados com grande brilhantismo.

The author of Madame Bovary counted among his correspondents Theophile Gautier, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, ­­­­­and his close friend George Sand (Amantine Dupin). These letters, mostly from the latter half of the great writer's life, offer unique glimpses into Flaubert's emotions, relationships, critical mind, and work. The volume also includes are four short works: an early drama, "The Dance of Death;" an early essay, "Rabelais;" "Preface...