Gustave Flaubert
1) Salammbô
An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. This book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. The Carthaginian costumes described therein even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it
...5) Herodias
In this gripping novella, French literary master Gustave Flaubert revisits one of the most dramatic events of the Bible and presents his own imaginative spin on the tale. The Herodias of the story's title is a princess who has concocted a devious plan to compel her husband to fall in love with her young daughter from a previous union, Salome. Once Salome has won his heart, Herodias instructs her to request the execution of John the Baptist.
Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work, before releasing this final version in 1874. Written in a play script form, The Temptation of Saint Anthony describes one night in Anthony the Great's life, in which he is faced with temptation from the supernatural in the desert of Egypt.
In this satirical novel from renowned French author Gustave Flaubert, two Paris-dwelling clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, have a chance encounter one day and instantly become the best of friends. When Bouvard comes into some family money, the two chums decide to pull up stakes and move to the country to pursue a life of intellectual inquiry. But after plowing through much of the world's literature, poetry, and scientific
...12) Madame Bovary
14) November
15) Salambo
16) Salammbô
Salammbô est un roman historique de Gustave Flaubert, paru en 1862 chez Michel Lévy.
Il prend pour sujet la Guerre des Mercenaires, iiie siècle av. J.-C., qui opposa la ville de Carthage avec les Mercenaires barbares qu’elle avait employés pendant la première Guerre punique, et qui se révoltèrent, furieux de ne pas avoir reçu la solde convenue. Flaubert chercha à respecter l’Histoire connue, mais profita du peu d’informations
