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Gustave Flaubert
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Flaubert: Selected Letters (Penguin Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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464 |
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1998-03-01 |
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0140446079 |
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Penguin Classics |
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0.7 pounds |
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5.2 x 8.0 x 0.8 inches |
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Spanning Flaubert's life from adolescence to his years of fame as a writer, this collection of letters is a compelling portrait of the artist. There are early letters imbued with the intensity of adolescent friendships; reports from the Orient that bring to life an exotic place where the picturesque, the sentimental, and the erotic gloriously coexist; and accounts of the writing of Madame Bovary that meticulously chronicle Flaubert's creative process. Letters to Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Turgenev, Zola, and Maupassant offer glimpses into nineteenth-century literary life; while those to George Sand bring to light a deep, abiding friendship. In the correspondence between Flaubert and his lover Louise Colet, Geoffrey Wall suggests in his Introduction, we witness an erotic game, a highly charged form of illicit intercourse.
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