{"product_id":"2026200015138-secondhand-the-letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1857","title":"The Letters Of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of nineteenth-century French literature stands Gustave Flaubert — a writer of volcanic ambition and obsessive perfectionism — and The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830–1857 offers an unparalleled window into the mind that gave the world Madame Bovary. Spanning the formative years of Flaubert's life and career, this meticulously selected and translated collection chronicles his innermost thoughts on art, friendship, love, and the agonising craft of writing, drawn from correspondence with the leading intellectual and literary figures of his age. Selected, edited, and translated by the acclaimed Francis Steegmuller — himself a celebrated Flaubert biographer — the volume presents these letters with scholarly precision and an elegant, deeply readable voice that brings the great novelist vividly to life. Together, the letters construct an intimate self-portrait of a literary giant wrestling with his own genius, revealing the restless, often tormented sensibility that would ultimately reshape the course of Western fiction. For anyone captivated by the origins of literary modernism or the private world behind one of literature's most enduring masterpieces, this collection is an essential and revelatory companion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203190169819,"sku":"2026200015138-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/24a76032-b352-40a0-bc18-df262715792b.png?v=1788145412","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015138-secondhand-the-letters-of-gustave-flaubert-1830-1857","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}