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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

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

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)

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

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)

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: (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

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

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

Madame Bovary (Flaubert Gustave)(Pevná vazba)

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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: 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

Fearless Flynn and Other Tales (Shields Gillian)(Paperback)

Three spooky tales from three peerless storytellers, perfect for telling around the fire on a dark, windy night. Read of Flynn, who battled with three skeletons; of Tom, who saw something so weird in the moonlight that it changed his life for ever; and of the terrifying thirteen crows who brought

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

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

A Twisted Tale Collection: A Boxed Set (Braswell Liz)(Paperback)

A paperback boxed set that collects the first three books in the wildly popular A Twisted Tale series for the first time A Whole New WorldOnce Upon a DreamAs Old as TimeDiscover your favorite worlds and stories, with game-changing twists that will have you feverishly turning pages to follow your

Greek Myths. Tales of Troy and Odysseus - Gustav Schwab

This collection of tales of the Trojan War and Odysseus, from Gustav Schwab’s seminal anthology of Greek myths, stages the illustrious exploits of a host of heroes and gods. Through the masterful drawings of Clifford Harper and artworks from the leading figures of the Golden Age of Illustration,

Danish Fairy Tales (Grundtvig Svend)(Paperback)

Translated by Gustav Hein. The very best of traditional Danish folklore comes alive for the present-day reader in this classic collection originally compiled by specialist scholar Svend Grundtvig. The tales selected for this volume were designed to represent all aspects of the unique cultural

Once-Upon-a-Slime, a Garden Tale About Max and - Three Slugs (Woodhead Fiona)(Paperback / softback)

Heroes (Sibleyras Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave, and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the