![]() ![]() He received honors from the emperor Napoleon III. He travelled to North Africa and the Middle East in 1851. ![]() He was heavily influenced by several women, including his mother, a mistress, and a woman ten years his senior with whom he fell in love as a young man. His life was outwardly uneventful, but full. Flaubert also wrote plays, short stories, and the long satire Bouvard and Pecuchet. Howard (the author of the Conan series), and The Temptation of Saint Anthony, which was translated into vivid, almost hallucinogenic English prose by Lafcadio Hearn. Among Flaubert's other notable works are Salammbo (1863), a historical romance of ancient Carthage which influenced Robert E. The novel is one of the greatest explorations of a female character by a male writer, in all of literature. Of the extremely well-realized heroine, he once remarked, I am her. The book was criticized for immorality and prosecuted, but Flaubert won the case. He is the author of the immortal Madame Bovary (1856), a novel about the loves and frustrations of a romantic woman married to a provincial dullard. He studied law in Paris but soon returned to his hometown (Croisset, near Rouen) to devote his life to writing. ![]() **Bouvard and Pecuchet (Part 1)**Author: Gustave FlaubertPublisher: Wildside PressCategory: Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Fiction In TranslationAge Group: 15+Book Format: PaperbackGUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880) was the son of a French surgeon. ![]()
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