Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To Gustave Flaubert, experience remained the only religion worth muttering a prayer to and the sensual world the only temple worth ...

Peter Brooks's excellent Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year is the perfect companion for reading Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Flaubert ...

‘There are in me, literarily speaking, two distinct persons,” Gustave Flaubert wrote to his lover, the poet Louise Colet. One was “infatuated with bombast, lyricism, eagle flights, sonorities of ...

1821-1880 "You must not think that feeling is everything... Art is nothing without form." Rouen, France He reluctantly studied law in Paris, but abandoned his studies due to bad health. An ...

Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles The handwritten manuscript is page after page of scratched out notes, smudges, comments and ink ...

A trove of letters from Gustave Flaubert discovered in the attic of a Home Counties farmhouse reveals a softer side to the famously cynical author of Madame Bovary. The letters, written to English ...

Geoffrey Wall is an academic and also a translator, whose version of Madame Bovary appeared in 1992. His new life of Gustave Flaubert, though, takes care not to get bogged down in the details. These ...

'The east is a career!" said Benjamin Disraeli. The east meant India, the British empire. But if you were French, then the east was different. The east was Egypt, a place at the very limit of the ...

The project to bring the final manuscript and multiple rough drafts to the general public for free took five years – the same time it took the perfectionist 19th century French author to complete his ...