Gustave: 1189 books

Book cover of Mémoires d'un cheminot du P.-L.-M.
by Gustave Martin, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Extrait : "Le Ier novembre 1876, je quittais (sans doute pour toujours) la maison qui m'avait vu naître. Cruelle ironie du sort, puisque j'avais cru y vivre et y mourir. Mes malheureux parents étaient navrés ; ma mère, surtout, me fit l'observation que je ne devais pas partir le jour de cette fête,...
Book cover of Sentimental Education
by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004

Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more...
Book cover of Doré's Illustrations for Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso"
by Gustave Doré
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012

This collection contains 208 of Dore's finest illustrations for Ariosto's magnificent epic poem, painstakingly reproduced from a beautifully printed 19th century German edition. The illustrations range from brilliant quick sketches to highly finished and shaded studies, many of which convey an incomparable...
Book cover of L'éducation sentimentale
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2015

L’Éducation sentimentale comporte de nombreux éléments autobiographiques (tels la rencontre de Madame Arnoux, inspirée de la rencontre de Flaubert avec Élisa Schlésinger). Le cœur du récit est tiré du roman de Sainte-Beuve : Volupté, qu’Honoré de Balzac avait déjà traité et d’une...
Book cover of La femme de Molière
by Gustave Larroumet, Collection les Grands Auteurs
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2018

Molière avait près de quarante ans, l’âge où le célibat et la solitude deviennent pénibles. Il était las des amours banales ; la fortune et le succès commençaient à lui sourire, mais son triple métier pesait sur lui d’un poids de plus en plus lourd. Il en vint, naturellement, à examiner...
Book cover of Paul Cézanne
by Gustave Coquiot
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2018

Fin de Juillet 1914. Marseille. Dans toute la Cannebière, un brouhaha de cris. Le soleil embrase le vieux Port;—les bateaux, alourdis, pèsent de toute leur carêne. L’eau est pourrie et pue. Les cafés regorgent. On attise la flamme patriotique à grandes rasades de vermouth et de bitter. Les...
Book cover of Rodin

Rodin

A l’Hotel de Biron et a Meudon ( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté

by Gustave Coquiot
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2018

COMME DE NOTRE TEMPS.—UN FRISE-TOUPET HEUREUX. L’HISTOIRE D’UN HOTEL CÉLÈBRE. LE XVIIIe siècle ressemble étrangement, par ses filous, au siècle que nous avons le malheur d’entamer. C’est pourquoi le XVIIIe siècle nous est si cher! A vrai dire, je crois même que de notre temps...
Book cover of Bouvard et Pécuchet
by Gustave Flaubert, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 4, 2015

Extrait : "Comme il faisait une chaleur de trente-trois degrés, le boulevard Bourdon se trouvait absolument désert. Plus bas le canal Saint-Martin, fermé par les deux écluses, étalait en ligne droite son eau couleur d'encre. Il y avait au milieu un bateau plein de bois, et sur la berge deux rangs de barriques."
Book cover of Mes heures de travail
by Gustave Moynier
Language: French
Release Date: August 19, 2016

EXTRAIT Désorienté de la sorte et n’ayant de goût prononcé pour aucune carrière, je fis à tâtons des essais de divers côtés, à la recherche d’une occupation qui ne fût pas encombrée d’amateurs et pour laquelle mon faible concours eût quelque chance d’être agréé. Guidé...
Book cover of The temptation of Saint Anthony
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018

The Temptation of St. Antony is based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert. Saint Anthony, while living in the desert, remembers former temptations and is beset by the onslaught of philosophic doubt.
Book cover of Bouvard and Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The last work written by Flaubert that was not quite complete by his death in 1880, "Bouvard and Pecuchet" is his characteristically satirical work revolving around two Parisian copy-clerks. Though they meet on a park bench in the middle of a hot summer day, their friendship grows to a remarkable degree,...
Book cover of Medieval France from the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
by Gustave Masson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012

Medieval France: From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century is a classic treatise on the history of France. This expansive text covers French history form the 10th to the 16th centuries, including the Capetian dynasty, the Crusades, and the Hundred Years War. A table of contents is included for easier navigation.
Book cover of Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Penguin Classics

by Gustave Flaubert
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even...
Book cover of Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners
by Gustave Flaubert, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004

Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures...
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