Gustave: 1189 books

This compelling portrait of obsessive love is drawn against the backdrop of ancient Carthage after a fierce battle. It is the story of the beautiful high priestess Salambo, who beguiles the leader of the invading army and sets in motion a horrific tragedy. Stylistically,  it is one of Flaubert’s more colorful and romantic ventures.

Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife, has a highly romanticized view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, and high society. The disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life lead her into extramarital love affairs as well as causing her to accrue an insurmountable...

Herodias holds a huge birthday celebration for her second husband, Herod Antipas. Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John. According to Flaubert, this plan entails making her husband fall in love with her daughter, Salome, leading to him promising her whatever she wants.

The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences including the romantic passion on his own life. 'I want to write the moral history of the...

After the First Punic War, Carthage is unable to fulfill promises made to its army of mercenaries, and finds itself under attack. The fictional title character, a priestess and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca, an aristocratic Carthaginian general, is the object of the obsessive lust of Matho, a leader...

Although the town of San Miguel de Tucuman is not very ancient, and its construction dates scarcely two centuries back, nevertheless—thanks, perhaps, to the calm and studious population which inhabit it—it has a certain middle age odour which is profusely exhaled from the old cloisters of its convents,...

Colonel Melendez, after leaving the Jaguar, galloped with his head afire, and panting chest, along the Galveston road, exciting with his spurs the ardour of his horse, which yet seemed to devour space, so rapid was its speed. But it is a long journey from the Salto del Frayle to the town. While galloping,...

Although the Seine, from Chanceaux, its fountainhead, to Havre, where it falls into the sea, is not more than four hundred miles in length, still, in spite of this comparatively limited course, this river is one of the most important in the world; for, from the days of Cæsar up to the present, it has...

Pourquoi écrire ces pages ? — À quoi sont-elles bonnes ? Qu’en sçais-je moi-même ? Cela est assez sot, à mon gré, d’aller demander aux hommes le motif de leurs actions et de leurs écrits. — Sçavez-vous vous-même pourquoi vous avez ouvert les misérables feuilles que la main d’un...

Cette version du livre contient une table des matières active ( HTML ), ce qui rendra votre lecture plus simple et plus agréable. Un beau condensé des idées de Monsieur Tout le Monde au XIXe. A lire...

Bretagne Pyrénées Corse

Ces cinq nouvelles extraordinaires nous font vivre cinq expériences, ou les différents protagonistes côtoient tour a tour la réalité, le reve ou le cauchemar, sans que nous ne sachions laquelle des trois situations est en train de vivre le personnage. Spectre seul - Je regarde un homme solitaire...

First published in 1869, this deliberately written work follows the ambitions and whims of the young Frédéric Moreau as he travels from his provincial hometown to the enticing metropolis of Paris. Though he survived the Revolution of 1848, Moreau is still prone to all the mistakes and petty concerns...

Nacido en 1818 y muerto en 1887, el escritor parisino Gustavo Aimard participó en la empresa mexicana del conde y filibustero francés Gastón de Raousset-Boulbon (1817-1854), quien arribara a las costas de Sonora a mediados del siglo XIX y llegara incluso a proclamar la independencia de aquel estado...