Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback / softback)

Madame Bovary + CD (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

Madame Bovary - Bilingual Parallel Text in Francais/English (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback / softback)

Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Pevná vazba)

Beautiful Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always dreamed about in the arms

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Emma has married Charles Bovary, a doctor, and the married couple live in a small village in Normandy. But the young woman is bored. She cannot stand the monotony of her life or the mediocrity of her husband. She dreams of a cultured life in Paris, so the husband and wife move to a larger city in

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world's most celebrated novels Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her

Madame Bovary: Provincial Lives (Flaubert Gustave)(Pevná vazba)

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

Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

'Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at the center of things--an emptiness we try to fill with books, with fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for ecstasy is ours.'--Erica Jong

Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Pevná vazba)

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Madame Bovary: Newly Translated and Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens) - Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and when her doctor, the well-meaning but awkward and unremarkable Charles Bovary, begins to pay her attention, she imagines that she may be granted her wish. However, after

Madame Bovary - Patterns of Provincial Life (Flaubert Gustave)(Pevná vazba)

Described by Henry James as 'one of the first of the classics' and so regarded ever since, MADAME BOVARY has touched generations of readers and moulded generations of

Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man (Amery Jean)(Paperback)

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love. Jean Am ry undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century

Penny (Stevens Karl)(Paperback)

'Penny is a major literary figure--right up there with Madame Bovary.' -- David Sedaris This colorful graphic novel features the philosophical and existential musings of a cat named Penny. Told through a collection of stories, Penny: A Graphic Memoir wanders through her colorful imagination as

Three Tales (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

Three stories by a French master First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience--together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of F licit , an uneducated serving-woman

Three Tales (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

This collection of three tales, 'A Simple Heart,' 'Saint Julian,' and 'Herodias' offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. In settings as familiar to the author as Normandy or as distant as biblical Palestine, these three stories reveal a writer skilled

The Doctor's Wife (Braddon Mary Elizabeth)(Paperback)

With The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon rewrote Flaubert's Madame Bovary, exploring the heroine's sense of entrapment and alienation in middle-class provincial life. A woman with a secret, adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements which combine

The Dictionary of Received Ideas (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the

Sentimental Education (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

One of the great French novels of the 19th century 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

Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.' With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also

Dva písaři (Bouvard a Pécuchet) - Gustave Flaubert - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Literární předloha legendárního televizního seriálu Byli jednou dva písaři. Dvojhlasá četba s Miroslavem Táborským a Václavem Koptou. Humoristický román Gustava Flauberta se odehrává ve Francii ve druhé polovině 19. století. Dvojice vysloužilých písařů se z

Hausfrau - Jill Alexander Essbaumová

An extraordinary debut literary page-turner with echoes of Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina | Haunting and elegant, Hausfrau is the exceptional debut novel from the prize-winning American poet, Jill Alexander Essbaum. | Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . | Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her

Lying (Harris Sam)(Pevná vazba)

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional

The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave Flaubert - e-kniha

eBook:,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