Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To Gustave Flaubert, experience remained the only religion worth muttering a prayer to and the sensual world the only temple worth ...

1821-1880 "You must not think that feeling is everything... Art is nothing without form." Rouen, France He reluctantly studied law in Paris, but abandoned his studies due to bad health. An ...

Peter Brooks's excellent Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year is the perfect companion for reading Flaubert's Sentimental Education. Flaubert ...

Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles The handwritten manuscript is page after page of scratched out notes, smudges, comments and ink ...

‘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 ...

'The east is a career!" said Benjamin Disraeli. The east meant India, the British empire. But if you were French, then the east was different. The east was Egypt, a place at the very limit of the ...

A trove of letters from Gustave Flaubert discovered in the attic of a Home Counties farmhouse reveals a softer side to the famously cynical author of Madame Bovary. The letters, written to English ...

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 ...