Gustave Flaubert
BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR
- Title: Salammbo
- Description:
An English Translation of this classic french book.
The story interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. Flaubert's main source was Book I of Polybius's Histories. It was not a particularly well-studied period of history and required a great deal of work from the author, who enthusiastically left behind the dreary subject-matter of Madame Bovary for this lurid tale of blood-and-thunder.
The book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. Following the success of Madame Bovary, it was another best-seller and sealed his reputation. The Carthaginian costumes described therein even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it is practically unknown today among English-speakers. 
- Title: Madame Bovary
- Description:
Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert who was attacked for obscenity by public prosecutors when it was first serialised in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, resulting in a trial in January 1857 that made it notorious. After the acquittal on 7 February, it became a bestseller in book form in April 1857, and now stands virtually unchallenged not only as a seminal work of Realism, but as one of the most influential novels ever written. 
- Title: Sentimental Education.
- Description:
An everyman Paperback. One of the great examples of realism, of an artistic ideal with scientific documentations. It is a book about failures, it is also a love story with great lyrical tenderness.
