Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary & other works (28 books)

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT (1821-1880) was an influential French writer who is counted among the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known especially for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, a perfectionism that cost him enormous toil but brought him only limited success in his own lifetime.

MADAME BOVARY (1857) is a seminal work of Realism and one of the most influential novels ever written. Its realistic portrayal of bourgeois life led to a trial on charges of the novel's alleged immorality. Henry James said the book "has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment."

SALAMMBO (1862), a historical novel set in Carthage during the 3rd century, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. Following the success of BOVARY, it was another best-seller and sealed his reputation. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (1869), a vast panorama of France under the July Monarchy and intended as the moral history of his generation, was largely misunderstood by the critics and received a cool public reception. The diversity of themes in THREE TALES (1877) -- "A Simple Heart", "Saint Julian the Hospitalier," and "Hérodias" -- shows Flaubert's talent in all its aspects and is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

After his death in 1880, Flaubert's fame and reputation grew steadily, strengthened by the publication of his unfinished and savagely satiric BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET (1881) and the many remarkable volumes of his Correspondence.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as indicated:


== FICTION ==

* Bouvard and Pécuchet (Dalkey Archive, 2005). Translated by Mark Polizzotti. Includes the "Dictionary of Accepted Ideas" and "Catalogue of Fashionable Ideas". -- ePUB

* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2012). -- ePUB

* Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (New Directions, 1968). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Jacques Barzun. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Norton Critical Edition, 2nd edn., 2005). Edited by Margaret Cohen; translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling and Paul de Man. -- PDF

* Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics, 2010). Translated by Lydia Davis. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics, 1981). Translated by Gerard Hopkins. -- PDF

* Madame Bovary (Hackett, 2009). Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Signet, 2001). Translated by Mildred Marmur. Also includes text of "The Trial of Madame Bovary", translated by Evelyn Gendel. -- ePUB + PDF

* Madame Bovary (Barnes & Noble, 2005). Translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling, with an Introduction by Chris Kraus. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics, 2004). Translated by Margaret Mauldon. -- PDF

* Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics, 1950). Translated by Alan Russell. -- PDF

* Madame Bovary (Vintage, 1992). Translated by Francis Steegmuller. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Vintage, 2011). Translated by Adam Thorpe. -- ePUB

* Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics, 1992). Translated by Geoffrey Wall. -- PDF

* Salambo (Hart, 1976). Translated by E. Powys Mathers. -- PDF

* Salammbo (Penguin Classics, 1977). Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. -- ePUB

* Sentimental Education (Penguin, 2004). Translated by Robert Baldick, revised with an Introduction and Notes by Geoffrey Wall. -- ePUB

* Sentimental Education (Signet Classics, 1972). Translated by Perdita Burlingame, with an Afterword by F. W. Dupee. -- PDF

* Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics, 2016). Translated by Helen Constantine. -- ePUB

* Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics, 2008). Translated by Douglas Parmée. -- ePUB

* Sentimental Education (Barnes & Noble, 2006). Translated by D. F. Hannigan, revised by Kathleen Rustum. -- ePUB

* Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library, 2001). Translated by Lafcadio Hearn, with an Introduction by Michel Foucault. -- ePUB

* Temptation of Saint Antony (Penguin Classics, 1983). Translated by Kitty Mrosovsky. -- PDF

* Three Tales (Oxford World Classics, 1991). Translated by A. J. Krailsheimer. -- PDF

* Three Tales (Penguin Classics, 2005). Translated by Roger Whitehouse. -- ePUB


== LETTERS & NOTEBOOKS ==

* George Sand / Gustave Flaubert Letters (Duckworth, 1922). Translated by Aimee L. McKenzie. -- PDF

* Intimate Notebook, 1840-1841 (Doubleday, 1967). Translated by Francis Steegmuller. -- PDF

* Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert (Farrar, Straus, 1953). Translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. -- PDF