Classics & Literature
A Simple Soul
Flaubert’s novella follows Félicité, a devoted and socially isolated servant, whose life of loyalty, loss, and quiet faith becomes a study of dignity and longing
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Books by Gustave Flaubert
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Classics & Literature
Bouvard and Pecuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
Flaubert’s unfinished satire follows two copyists who inherit money and attempt to master one field of knowledge after another, repeatedly exposing human ignorance and pretension
Classics & Literature
Bouvard and Pecuchet A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Part II
The continuation of Flaubert’s unfinished satire, following Bouvard and Pécuchet as their attempts to master practical and intellectual subjects repeatedly collapse into comic failure
Classics & Literature
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary’s dissatisfaction with provincial life becomes a study of desire, consumption, romantic fantasy, debt and the pressure of social conventions
Psychology & the Mind
Three short works
This volume brings together three very different pieces by Gustave Flaubert: The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, and A Simple Soul. Together they reveal the range of Flaubert’s imagination far better than any single novel could
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