A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris, for 'refreshment' every few months. A great traveller - to Corsica, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Morocco - he kept company with courtesans, actresses, acrobats, gypsies, idiots and simpletons of every stripe. Flaubert detested his respectable, provincial neighbours, referring to them as 'the borgeoisie'. They, in turn, heaped infamy on his name and contrived to have ...
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A great blonde giant of a man, Gustave Flaubert lived at home with his widowed mother, writing wonderful novels at the rate of five words an hour, escaping to Paris, for 'refreshment' every few months. A great traveller - to Corsica, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Morocco - he kept company with courtesans, actresses, acrobats, gypsies, idiots and simpletons of every stripe. Flaubert detested his respectable, provincial neighbours, referring to them as 'the borgeoisie'. They, in turn, heaped infamy on his name and contrived to have him persecuted for writing an immoral book. Decent people avoided his company and he returned the compliment.Flaubert's character's most famously Emma Bovary, live on in the popular literary imagination with the same authority as those of Shakespeare and Joyce. They travel towards the dark places of the mind, and their fate prompts our pity, fear and laughter.
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Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $4.99, good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber & Faber.
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Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $5.20, very good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2002 by Faber & Faber.
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Very Good. 2002. Main. Paperback. How is it that Flaubert, the last of the great French romantics, still seems so incredibly modern? In this biography, Geoffrey Wall investigates why it is that the author of Madame Bovary still exerts such a hold upon our imaginations. Num Pages: 432 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 486. Minor scuffing, otherwise excellent......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $6.64, very good condition, Sold by Greener Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber and Faber.
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Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $6.68, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber and Faber.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1st edition, 2001. No inscriptions or annotations; binding tight; dust jacket spine a little faded; dust jacket not price-clipped. Overall a very nice copy.
Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $10.14, very good condition, Sold by Cornell Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tewkesbury, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by London: Faber, 2001.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), viii, 413pp. 30 plates. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0571195210.
Add this copy of Flaubert a Life to cart. $14.52, very good condition, Sold by Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dulverton, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber & Faber, 2001. 9780571195213.
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1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered black cloth (lightly bumped at fore-edges-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. viii + 413, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).
Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life to cart. $14.85, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber & Faber.
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Add this copy of Flaubert: a Life / Geoffrey Wall to cart. $16.54, like new condition, Sold by MW Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, G, IRELAND, published 2001 by London: Faber and Faber.
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Physical description; viii, 413 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-408) and index. Subjects; Flaubert, Gustave 1821-1880. Flaubert, Gustave. 1800-1899. Novelists, French 19th century; Biography. Novelists, French. Authors, French 19th century; Biography. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
Add this copy of Flaubert: A Life to cart. $5.35, good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2001 by Faber & Faber.
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Good. Marks to cover edges. Marks/scratches to dustjacket, spine faded & part of sticker on front flap. Marks/light foxing to textblock edges. Botttom edge of several pages at back miscut. Black ink stain to bottom of several pages at back. Text very good.
