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  • Madame Bovary (Cronos Classics)

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When ... Read more

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  • The Temptation of St. Anthony

    "The Temptation of St. Anthony" is a novel that delves into the legendary figure of St. Anthony of Egypt, who is known for his extreme asceticism and spiritual struggles. The story is set during a period of intense temptation and inner conflict faced by St. Anthony while he is living in the desert.The novel is structured around a series of vivid and surreal visions experienced by St. Anthony, who ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling ...
    She dreamed of passion and luxury—but found only the emptiness behind them. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is a landmark of world literature and one of the most beautifully written novels ever composed—a daring portrait of a woman who refuses to be confined by the rules of her time. Trapped in a stifling provincial marriage, Emma Bovary longs for excitement, beauty, and love. Her romantic ... Read more

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  • The Temptation of St. Anthony

    Flaubert's studies for the "Temptation" were tremendous. For nearly thirty years he touched and retouched, altered, enlarged, condensed. He kneaded into its substance the knowledge, incessantly sought, of all religions and philosophies; of all the forms man's speculations had taken in his endless endeavours to explain to himself Life and Fate; humanity's untiring, passionate effort to find the ... Read more

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  • The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul

    Enriched edition. A Poetic Journey of Spiritual Struggles and Temptations

    Gustave Flaubert's "The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul" is a profound exploration of spiritual and existential angst, presented through a rich and innovative literary style that intertwines a lyrical prose with dramatic dialogue. Written in the mid-19th century, the text departs from conventional narrative forms, serving as a philosophical meditation on temptation, faith, ... Read more

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  • Bouvard and Pécuchet

    Bouvard and Pécuchet is a classic comedy written by Gustave Flaubert and first published in 1881.Nowhere do Flaubert's explorations of the relation of signs to the objects they signify reach a more thorough study than in this work. Bouvard and Pécuchet systematically confuse signs and symbols with reality, an assumption that causes them much suffering, as it does for Emma Bovary and Frédéric ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    Bilingual Edition (English – German)

    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding German paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot. ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

    Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThis collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading, 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. "Emma is bored and wants excitement and makes a complete mess of her life. In the process she destroys the life of her very provincial husband who also happens to be a good man. The story is tragic and at times frustrating but well worth reading."After marrying Charles ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Education

    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    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 unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    "Madame Bovary", Flaubert’s first published novel, is his greatest and a masterpiece of Universal literature. Emma Bovary has become one of the most famous characters in world literature, and critics continue to debate and interpret her life, which, in its depiction of the conflict between idealism and reality, remains every bit as relevant today as it did when first published.The centre of the ... Read more

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  • Madame Bovary

    In Flaubert's debut novel, Emma, a beautiful young farm girl, marries the older, established Dr. Charles Bovary in an attempt to escape her rural life. Though at first she is hopeful and excited to begin her life with Dr. Bovary, married life in a small town doesn't offer Emma the romance and contentment she had been waiting for. She quickly becomes bored and lonely, finding comfort only in her ... Read more

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  • Bouvard and Pecuchet

    In his own words, the novel is "a kind of encyclopedia made into farce . . . A book in which I shall spit out my bile." At the center of this book are Bouvard and Pécuchet, two retired clerks who set out in a search for truth and knowledge with persistent optimism in light of the fact that each new attempt at learning about the world ends in disaster.In the literary tradition of Rabelais, ... Read more

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