Books by Gustave Flaubert

Salammbo (Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(26 reviews)

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome. See More

The Temptation of St. Antony: Or a Revelation of the Soul

by Gustave Flaubert

A Holy Saint. T is in the Thebaïd, on the heights of a mountain, where a platform, shaped like a crescent, is surrounded by huge stones. The Hermit's cell occupies the background. It is built of mud and reeds, flat-roofed... See More

Madame Bovary (Mint Editions—Literary Fiction)

by Gustave Flaubert

"Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things -- an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human... See More

A Simple Heart (The Art of the Novella)

by Gustave Flaubert

(34 reviews)

One single noise reached her ears now, the voice of the parrot. With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed... See More

Sentimental Education (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)

by Gustave Flaubert

(117 reviews)

"I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation -- or, more accurately, the history of their feelings," declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned "a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can... See More

The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary (NHB Modern Plays)

by Gustave Flaubert

(1 review)

Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary. Laugh and cry in equal measure as Emma... See More

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

(1,772 review)

Madame Bovary (1856) 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... See More

Three Tales (Penguin Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(65 reviews)

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity... See More

Bouvard and Pecuchet: A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

by Gustave Flaubert

(17 reviews)

Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. See More

Madame Bovary: A Study of Provincial Life

by Gustave Flaubert

This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with... See More

Lone Sloane: Salammbô Vol. 1 (The Philippe Druillet Library)

by Gustave Flaubert

(61 reviews)

Salammbô is a heady perfume of blood and rage across the stars. The latest in Titan's Philippe Druillet masterworks series, starring his legendary Lone Sloane. Druillet works his intoxicatingly psychedelic magic on... See More

Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Satirical Novel (Complete Edition): From the prolific French writer, known for his debut novel Madame Bovary and for his short ... as Three Tales, November and A Simple Heart

by Gustave Flaubert

(6 reviews)

This carefully crafted ebook: "Bouvard and Pécuchet" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Bouvard et Pécuchet details the adventures of two Parisian copy-clerks, François Denys... See More

Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 128)

by Gustave Flaubert

(54 reviews)

Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate... See More

Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert

by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert is renowned for this realist works. His most famous work has been his debut novel, Madame Bovary. This book is an attempt to bring some of his works togetherm which includes Madame Bovary, A Simple Soul... See More

Madame Bovary + Salammbô + Sentimental Education (3 Unabridged Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(1 review)

This carefully crafted ebook: "Madame Bovary + Salammbô + Sentimental Education (3 Unabridged Classics)" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents... See More

Madame Bovary (Penguin Hardback Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(20 reviews)

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of... See More

Salammbô

by Gustave Flaubert

(17 reviews)

"Salammbô" is an historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1862. Although the titular heroine is a fictional character, the novel's setting of ancient Carthage and many characters are historically accurate, if... See More

Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

by Gustave Flaubert

(15 reviews)

Jacques Barzun's masterful translation proves that Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas -- an acid catalogue of the clichés of 19th-century France -- is as relevant today as ever. Throughout his life Flaubert made it a... See More

Three Tales

by Gustave Flaubert

(63 reviews)

This trio of short stories by the author of Madame Bovary were the last of Flaubert's works published in his lifetime, and their ambitious range reaches from the 19th century back to the Middle Ages and to ancient Israel. "A... See More

Die Meisterwerke der Weltliterature: 100 Klassiker die man kennen muss (German Edition)

by Franz Kafka

In dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur, die bahnbrechenden Bücher, die zeitlosen Klassiker, die ewig bewegende Poesie:: Selbstbetrachtungen (Marcus Aurelius) Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit... See More

Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(114 reviews)

Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an... See More

Herodias (World Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(9 reviews)

Herodias holds a huge birthday celebration for her second husband, Herod Antipas. Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John. According to Flaubert, this plan entails making her husband fall in love with her... See More

A Simple Soul

by Gustave Flaubert

(27 reviews)

"A Simple Soul" is a literary work by Gustave Flaubert, written in 1877. It addresses the views of the upper class towards the working class. In the center of the story, Flaubert puts the relations of Madame Aubain, who was... See More

Herodias

by Gustave Flaubert

(9 reviews)

A retelling of the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist from Herod's perspective Herodias is the retelling of the beheading of John the Baptist. It starts slightly before the arrival of the Syrian governor... See More

MADAME BOVARY

by Gustave Flaubert

(3 reviews)

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... See More

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library Classics)

by Gustave Flaubert

(39 reviews)

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... See More

Madame Bovary: 150th Anniversary

by Gustave Flaubert

(96 reviews)

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about... See More

Sentimental Education

by Gustave Flaubert

(10 reviews)

This eBook edition of "Sentimental Education" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Sentimental Education is an autobiographical novel. The story focuses on the... See More

Personal Correspondence Between Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

by Gustave Flaubert

This eBook edition of "Personal Correspondence Between Gustave Flaubert & George Sand" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was an... See More

THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY: A Historical Novel

by Gustave Flaubert

(6 reviews)

The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a historical novel. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in the Egyptian desert, a theme often repeated in medieval and modern art. It is written... See More