Gustave Flaubert

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1) Madame Bovary

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Series

Signet classic
Recorded Books classics library

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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An ordinary woman's unfulfilled dreams of romantic love lead her to a series of desperate acts, including adultery, in a classic novel set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century bourgeois France.

2) Three tales

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Publisher

Penguin

Pub. Date

1961

Language

English

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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 (also published as A Simple Soul), relates the story of Félicité, an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of desolation and loss. The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator, inspired by a stained-glass window in Rouen...

3) The temptation of Saint Antony

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Publisher

Penguin

Pub. Date

1983

Language

English

4) Madame Bovary: provincial ways

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

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Offers a new translation of Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.

5) Trois contes

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Publisher

Flammarion

Pub. Date

1986

Language

Français

6) Salambo

Author

Flaubert, Gustave

Publisher

Hart

Pub. Date

c1976

Language

English

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Salammbô 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.

7) Madame Bovary

Publisher

Time-Life Video

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

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A dramatization of Gustave Flaubert's classic about the tragic consequences that await a frivolous woman. Marriage: Emma meets Charles Bovary, a physician who comes to treat her injured father. Newly widowed he soon begins to shyly court Emma. Longing for an exciting life far away from the farm, Emma consents to marry Charles. But she quickly becomes bored and frustrated with her passionless marrriage, her plodding husband, and his lack of ambition....

8) Madame Bovary

Publisher

BBC Video

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

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With dreams of escaping her provincial upbringing, Emma Rouault marries local doctor Charles Bovary. But it is not long before she feels constrained and frustrated by married life. Ignoring her devoted husband and immersing herself in romantic fantasies, Emma begins a string of affairs. First, a young student, Lon, captures her imagination, but when the dashing aristocrat, Rodolphe, shows Emma the alternatives to married life, she enters into the...

9) Madame Bovary

Publisher

Alchemy

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Description

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Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel that transformed the Romantic era.

10) Madame Bovary

Series

World films

Publisher

MK2 Productions USA, Inc

Pub. Date

2002.

Language

Français

Description

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Emma Bovary is a woman possessed by a burning hunger for life and love--and a passion that can never be fulfilled. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, Emma indulges herself in a lifestyle of reckless overspending and a series of shocking affairs which threaten to destroy her and everyone around her. MPAA rating: PG-13.