Gustave Flauberts sista roman är en egensinnig historia om två kontorsslavar, som ger sig i kast med att beskriva och undersöka mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Utan att de själva förstår det, urartar alltsammans till en farsartad encyklopedi över borgerlighetens idiotier och de intellektuell[...]

"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 remarka[...]

Valmiiden ajatusten sanakirja, jota Flaubert kutsui myös "inhimillisen typeryyden ensyklopediaksi", on kirjailijan keskeneräiseksi jäänyt hanke, jonka oli määrä olla osa hänen viimeistä satiirista romaaniaan Bouvard et Pecuchet. Romaanin piti kertoa kahdesta itseoppineesta kirjurista, jotka[...]

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the g[...]

In each of the titular "Three Tales", Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality: the loyal servant who dies alone, having served her masters all her life, not once complaining of the tragic losses she has suffered therein; the young man sanctified at birth whose bloodlust leads him to[...]

Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritence, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong pr[...]

Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage t[...]

Frederic Moreau, a young man in search of excitement, falls in love with Mme Arnoux, a beautiful, dark haired older woman. His fascination will last a lifetime, as he works to become first an acquaintance of her husband, then a firm family friend. But Frederic's hard-won closeness to Mme Arnoux will[...]

'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Clas[...]

Flaubert's Three Tales offer an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists.[...]