Gustave Flaubert

"A Simple Soul" by Gustave Flaubert is a poignant and introspective novella that delves into the life and experiences of Félicité, a humble and devoted servant who leads a simple existence, yet possesses a profound depth of emotion and devotion. The story follows Félicité's journey from her early years as a servant in various households to her eventual position with Madame Aubain, a widow living in the small town of Pont-l'Évêque. Despite the challenges and hardships she faces, Félicité's unwavering dedication and genuine kindness earn her the affection of Madame Aubain and her family. Flaubert's narrative artfully unveils Félicité's inner world, revealing her deep emotional connections and the intensity of her feelings. Through her experiences, the novella explores themes of love, devotion, and the search for meaning in a seemingly ordinary life. Félicité's devotion is most evident in her relationship with a parrot named Loulou. After Loulou's death, Félicité's grief and longing lead her to seek solace in her religious beliefs, particularly her devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Her profound spiritual experiences and connection to the divine provide her with a sense of purpose and fulfillment. As the years pass, Félicité's life becomes intertwined with that of Madame Aubain's daughter, Virginie. When Virginie falls seriously ill, Félicité dedicates herself to caring for her, showcasing her selflessness and compassion. Félicité's unwavering devotion to Virginie and her willingness to sacrifice her own well-being serve as a testament to the depth of her character. The novella's exploration of Félicité's emotional world is complemented by Flaubert's detailed and evocative descriptions of the natural surroundings and everyday life in Pont-l'Évêque. These descriptions contribute to the rich sensory experience of the narrative, allowing readers to immerse themselves in Félicité's world and connect with her on a deeper level. "A Simple Soul" offers a profound meditation on the complexities of the human heart and the beauty that can be found in even the most unassuming lives. Through Félicité's story, Flaubert prompts readers to reflect on the nature of love, devotion, and the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in a world marked by both joys and sorrows.

Noted for his scrupulous devotion to style and aesthetics, Gustave Flaubert was a highly influential figure of nineteenth century literature, widely considered the leading exponent of French literary realism. His debut novel ‘Madame Bovary’ (1857) caused a scandal, as public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial made the story notorious and after Flaubert's acquittal, it became an instant bestseller. Today, it is regarded as a seminal work of literary realism and one of the most influential literary works of the time. This comprehensive eBook offers the most complete collection ever compiled of Flaubert’s fictional works in English translation, with numerous illustrations, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Flaubert’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* All the novels, with individual contents tables* Includes Timothy Unwin’s 2001 translation of Flaubert’s first novel, ‘Memoirs of a Madman’, produced for the University of Liverpool (appearing here by special permission)* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Rare short stories and plays, available in no other collection* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read* Includes a selection of Flaubert’s non-fiction – available in no other collection* Flaubert’s letters to George Sand – explore the author’s personal correspondence* Special criticism section, with several essays evaluating Flaubert’s contribution to literature, including Guy de Maupassant’s seminal study of his mentor* Features two biographies – discover Flaubert’s literary life* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresCONTENTS:The NovelsMemoirs of a Madman (1900)Madame Bovary (1838)Salammbô (1862)Sentimental Education (1869)Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)The Dramatic NarrativeThe Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)The Short StoriesThe Dance of Death (1838)Novembre (1842)Three Tales (1877)The PlaysThe Candidate (1873)The Castle of Hearts (1880)Selected Non-FictionAboard the CangeOver Strand and FieldRabelaisPreface to the ‘Last Songs of Louis Bouilhet’Letter to the Municipality of Rouen on the Subject of a Memorial to Louis BouilhetSelected CorrespondenceThe George Sand-Gustave Flaubert LettersThe TrialThe Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert (1857)The CriticismGustave Flaubert: A Study by Guy de MaupassantGustave Flaubert by Arthur SymonsGustave Flaubert by Henry JamesExtracts from ‘Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers’ by D. H. LawrenceExtracts from Virginia Woolf’s DiaryThe BiographiesIntimate Remembrances of Gustave Flaubert by Caroline CommanvilleGustave Flaubert by Edmund GossePlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Nouvelle édition enrichie (Introduction, notes explicatives, notices, chronologie, biographie, gravures d'époque) et l'ouvrage le plus complet à ce jour des oeuvres de Gustave Flaubert. Découvrez les œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, dans une édition originale de référence augmentée de centaines de notes explicatives, de gravures d'époque et d'annexes. L'ouvrage a été conçu pour un confort de lecture et de navigation optimal sur votre liseuse. Il contient 69 titres. Contenu détaillé: — Une INTRODUCTION — Les 6 OEUVRES MAJEURES : Madame Bovary • l’Éducation sentimentale (1869) • Salammbô • La tentation de saint Antoine • Bouvard et Pécuchet • Trois Contes — Les 4 titres du THÉÂTRE : Introduction – les romanciers au théâtre, par Paul Alexis • Le candidat • Le sexe faible • Le château des coeurs — Les 2 titres de l'oeuvre DIVERS : Dictionnaire des idées reçues • la spirale — Les 2 titres des VOYAGES : Par les champs et par les grèves • notes de voyages — Les 40 titres des OEUVRES DE JEUNESSE : Art et progrès • San Pietro Ornano • Matteo Falcone • Chevrin et le roi de Prusse • Dernière scène de la mort de Marguerite de Bourgogne. • Portrait de Lord Byron • Le moine des Chartreux • Mort du duc de Guise • Deux mains sur une couronne • Un secret de Philippe le prudent • Un parfum à sentir • La femme du monde • La peste à florence • Bibliomanie • Rage et impuissance • Rêve d'enfer • Une leçon d'histoire naturelle • Quidquid volueris • Passion et vertu • Loys XI • Agonies. angoisses • La danse des morts • Ivre et mort • Mémoires d'un fou • Les arts et le commerce • Smarh • Les funérailles du docteur Mathurin • Rabelais • Mademoiselle Rachel • Novembre • Chronique normande du Xe siècle • La dernière heure • La main de fer • Rome et les césars • Souvenirs, notes et pensées intimes • l’Éducation sentimentale. (version de 1845) • Lutte du sacerdoce et de l'empire • Une nuit de don Juan. • Pierrot au sérail • La découverte de la vaccine — Les 3 PRÉFACES et ARTICLES : Des pierres de Carnac • Préface des « dernières chansons et poésies » de Louis Bouilhet • Préface « des vers » de Maupassant — CORRESPONDANCE : Plus de 1500 lettres ou fragments — Les 9 titres ANNEXES : L'enterrement de Flaubert par Emile Zola • La presse et la critique a la mort de Flaubert. • Discours de Paul Bourget • Gustave Flaubert par Albert Thibaudet • L'érudition dans le roman • Revue littéraire – Correspondance de Gustave Flaubert avec George Sand • A propos du style de Flaubert • Biographie • Illustrations A PROPOS DE L’ÉDITEUR Les éditions Arvensa sont les leaders de la littérature classique numérique. Leur objectif est de vous faire connaître les œuvres des plus grands auteurs de la littérature classique en langue française à un prix abordable tout en vous fournissant la meilleure expérience de lecture sur votre liseuse. Tous les titres sont produits avec le plus grand soin. Chaque édition contient un système de navigation intuitif et ergonomique : • Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. • Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. Vous disposez également d’un service qualité qui s’engage à vous répondre dans les 48h. Retrouvez tous les titres et les actualités des éditions Arvensa sur leur site.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.A new translation by Lydia Davis Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

<p><I>Madame Bovary</I>, by <B>Gustave Flaubert</B>, is part of the <I>Barnes & Noble Classics</I></A><I> </I>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 <I>Barnes & Noble Classics</I>:<p><li>New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars <li>Biographies of the authors <li>Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events <li>Footnotes and endnotes <li>Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work <li>Comments by other famous authors <li>Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations <li>Bibliographies for further reading <li>Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some... <p class="description">Madame Bovary (1857) By Gustave Flaubert Flaubert's first and much debated novel, which took him six years to write, and was threatened with legal extinction when it appeared in 1857, here it appears in an admirable version by the late Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Despite the early antagonism it aroused on moral grounds, it has been called one of the most salutary novels ever written. Henry James even said it might have been conceived as a Sunday-School tract, and the fate of Mme. Bovary, that 'would-be sybarite without a soul, ' bears him out. But all critics of the art of fiction are agreed that in form and finish Bovary is one of the world's greatest novels. 'It remains, ' says Mr. Peter Lubbock in The Craft of Fiction, 'perpetually the novel of all novels which the criticism of fiction cannot over look as soon as ever we speak of the principles of the art, we must be prepared to engage with Flauber</p> The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor’s wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in search of passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral that inexorably leads to ruin and self-destruction. Along with Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Flaubert’s tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman torn between duty and desire. Written with acute attention to telling detail, Madame Bovary not only exposes the emptiness of one woman’s bourgeois existence and failure to fill that void with fantasies, sex, and material objects. Emma’s thirst for life mirrors the universal human impulse for idealized fulfillment.

Salammbo By Gustave Flaubert Salammbô (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. It was not a particularly well-studied period of history and required a great deal of work from the author, who enthusiastically left behind the realism of his masterpiece Madame Bovary for this tale of blood and thunder. The book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. Following the success of Madame Bovary, it was another best-seller and sealed his reputation. The Carthaginian costumes described in it even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it is not widely known today among English speakers.

Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation. " It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.

One of the great French novels of the 19th centuryBased on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation. " It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ### Review Novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in French in 1869 as L'Education sentimentale: Histoire d'un jeune homme. The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic's puppy love for Mme Arnoux is at first steadfast and idealistic, and she remains faithful to her rather frivolous husband. Frederic's love ends in disillusionment, as do the subsequent passions of his life. His youthful ambitions lead to failure and boredom, and his idealistic views of social progress are disappointed by reality. Among the novel's most remarkable qualities is Flaubert's vivid and faithful presentation of its social and political setting, including the Revolution of 1848, the republic that followed, and the mood of the French people amid the era's many changes. -- __ ### Product Description General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ### Review Novel by Gustave Flaubert, published in French in 1869 as L'Education sentimentale: Histoire d'un jeune homme. The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic's puppy love for Mme Arnoux is at first steadfast and idealistic, and she remains faithful to her rather frivolous husband. Frederic's love ends in disillusionment, as do the subsequent passions of his life. His youthful ambitions lead to failure and boredom, and his idealistic views of social progress are disappointed by reality. Among the novel's most remarkable qualities is Flaubert's vivid and faithful presentation of its social and political setting, including the Revolution of 1848, the republic that followed, and the mood of the French people amid the era's many changes. -- __ ### Product Description General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt. This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls “a splendid period piece from one of America’s premier translators of nineteenth-century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn’s Latinate rendering, Flaubert’s experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original.”