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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: in good condition with minor shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears tight and intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. A landmark...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A richly detailed biography, George Sand chronicles the extraordinary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFew windows into the mind of a literary genius are as intimate or as revelatory as his private correspondence, and...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew novels in the Western canon have so devastatingly laid bare the collision between romantic illusion and provincial reality...

Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Fr 'ed 'eric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. This book...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very Good — dust jackets present on both volumes, clean with minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Tight and...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodShe smoked cigars, wore trousers, took lovers freely, and wrote over seventy novels — George Sand was the most scandalous and celebrated woman in nineteenth-century France,...

The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the...

Seen by many as the culmination of Sartre's thought and project, and viewed by Sartre himself as an attempt to answer the question, "What, at this point in time, can...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers have left behind a literary legacy as towering — and as tormented — as Gustave Flaubert, and John Charles Tarver's Gustave Flaubert: As Seen...

The book titled Letters by the author Gustave Flaubert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land...

The searing, tragic French classic in a gorgeous clothbound edition Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of...

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A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Condition remarks:Book: NewJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. New in shrink wrap. In one of the most ambitious acts of literary criticism of the twentieth...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedFew novels have captured the suffocating tragedy of unfulfilled desire quite like Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's masterwork of 19th-century French realism. The story chronicles Emma Bovary,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Gustave Flaubert stands as one of the most exacting and influential figures...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Clipped DJ with some tears. Some foxing on book blocks. Clean text. This two-volume set of "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert," translated and edited by Francis...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew writers have shaped the contours of modern fiction as profoundly as Gustave Flaubert, and Jonathan Culler's Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty presents a...

Drawing on archival sources, much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers, Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life....

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

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A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris,...

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes. Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of literary biography, Flaubert:...