‘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 ...

IN his essay on Gustave Flaubert Mr. Henry James, Jr., states the undisputed fact that Madame Bovary, the author’s first novel, has remained altogether his best. As for Salammbô, La Tentation de Saint ...

There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...

French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s account of his trip up the Nile in 1850 can still intrigue today The 19th-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert was not a great traveller. In his letters he often ...

The exclamation "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" is attributed to Gustave Flaubert, creator of the 19th century's original desperate housewife, but this is not Flaubert's Madame Bovary – it's an adaptation ...

These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the “Couples Therapy”-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above. By Sadie ...

"The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." That's Stephen Dedalus in ...

On November 25 1849, 70 passengers boarded a boat in Alexandria, beneath a “gloomy autumn sky”, bound for Cairo and the ancient sites of Upper Egypt. The barge-like vessel was designed to carry only ...