Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

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....

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,...

L'éducation sentimentale est un roman de Gustave Flaubert, inspiré de ses expériences amoureuses. Il retrace la vie de Frédéric Moreau, jeune étudiant qui veut intégrer la haute société. Frédéric quitte Paris pour Nogent-sur-Seine à bord d'un bateau. Il y rencontre le couple Arnoux, et tombe éperdument amoureux de Madame Arnoux. Une fois arrivé, il retrouve Charles Deslauriers, son meilleur ami et lui raconte son coup de foudre avec...

In Three Short Works, three character-driven stories follow each protagonist as they attempt to navigate the trials and tribulations of life, death, love and loss. Flaubert presents a powerful combination of realism and romanticism that jumps off the page. Three Short Works consists of three distinct stories. "The Dance of Death" centers on the plight of the Grim Reaper or Death, as he complains about his difficult job and unenviable title. In "The...

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....

Extrait : "C'était à Mégara, faubourg de Carthage, dans les jardins d'Hamilcar. Les soldats qu'il avait commandés en Sicile se donnaient un grand festin pour célébrer le jour anniversaire de la bataille d'Eryx, et comme le maître était absent et qu'ils se trouvaient nombreux, ils mangeaient et buvaient en pleine liberté. Les capitaines, portant des cothurnes de bronze, s'étaient placés dans le chemin du milieu..." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...

La opinión de Baudelaire sobre Madame Bovary es, sin duda, la que sigue manteniéndose hoy. Para él, como para nosotros ahora, Madame Bovary es una obra de arte. El artículo, que publica en la revista L'Artiste, en aquel, año de 1857, es un modelo de inteligencia crítica: "Una novela, ¡y qué novela! La más imparcial, la más leal". Él es el primero, y durante bastante tiempo el único, en afirmar que la dimensión moral del texto es secundaria,...

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...

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 daughter, Salome, leading to him promising her whatever she wants.