[Gutenberg 1291] • Herodias

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country.

Table of Contents:

Novels:

Madame Bovary

Salammbô

Bouvard and Pécuchet

Sentimental Education

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Short Stories:

November

A Simple Heart

Saint Julian the Hospitalier

Herodias

The Dance of Death

Studies and Literary Criticism:

Gustave Flaubert: A Study by Guy de Maupassant

Extracts from Virginia Woolf’s diary

Extract from ‘Essays in London and Elsewhere’ by Henry James

Extracts from ‘Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers’ by D.H. Lawrence

Extract from ‘Figures of Several Countries’ by Arthur Symons

Madame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

Salammbô is a historical novel, set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC, immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War.

Sentimental Education is an autobiographical novel, considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, being praised by contemporaries George Sand, Émile Zola, and Henry James.