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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour; a Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Letters
by Flaubert, Gustave
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0316812153
- ISBN 13
- 9780316812153
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 8vo. [10], 232 pp. Bound in quarter green cloth over brown boards, illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Very Good, foxing to all edges, light age-toning to spine, internally clean, in Good dust jacket with sunning to spine and chipping and small tears to extremities.
Synopsis
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The form of his work was marked by intense aesthetic scrupulousness and passionate pursuit of le mot juste; its content alternately reflected scorn for French bourgeois society and a romantic taste for exotic historical subject matter. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for “immorality”; Salammbô (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his reputation was supreme. His circle of friends included Turgenev and the Goncourt brothers, while the young Guy de Maupassant underwent an arduous literary apprenticeship under his direction. Increasing personal isolation and financial insecurity troubled his last years. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pécuchet , left unfinished at his death in 1880.
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- Garnet Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003125
- Title
- Flaubert in Egypt
- Author
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316812153
- ISBN 13
- 9780316812153
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1972
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Biography and Autobiography;
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