Gustave: 1189 books

Gustave Flaubert was a prominent French writer in the 19th century.  Flaubert, who wrote the classic novel Madame Bovary, was a significant contributor to literary realism.  This edition of The Dance of Death includes a table of contents.

Salaambo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, whose vivid plot bursts with exoticism, high drama and bloody violence. Set in Carthage during the 3rd century BC immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt which took place shortly after the First Punic War. It's a tale of war between Rome...

Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English. There’s a great option: bilingual books! Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can...

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary (Illustriert) Unzensierte VersionFür die eBook-Ausgabe neu editiert, in aktualisierter Rechtschreibung. Mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und verlinkten FußnotenFrankreich, um 1850: Emma, eine junge Schönheit, im Kopf eine Menge klischeehafter Träume von einem mondänen...

Édition enrichie (Présentation et notes) L'Histoire d'un coeur simple est tout bonnement le récit d'une vie obscure, celle d'une pauvre fille de campagne, dévote mais mystique, dévouée sans exaltation et tendre comme du pain frais. Elle aime successivement un homme, les enfants de sa...

This file includes (in the original French): Madame Bovary, 1857; La Tentation de Saint Antoine, 1848; Trois Contes, 1878 (Un Coeur Simple, La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier, Hérodias), Bouvard et Pécuchet, 1881, and Dictionnaire des Idees Recues, 1913. According to Wikipedia: "Gustave...

One single noise reached her ears now, the voice of the parrot. With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale...

Like many of Gustave Aimard's classic action-adventure novels, Stoneheart traces long-simmering conflicts between two groups of people: the indigenous tribes that occupied the land for thousands of years, and the more recent arrivals seeking to exploit natural resources and stake their own claims. Set...

Part of Gustave Aimard's bestselling action-adventure series set amidst the rough-and-tumble deserts, towns, canyons and forests of the Old West, The Adventurers will stoke the imagination of every reader, whether you're in it for the pulse-pounding chases and last-minute escapes or the inspiring story of true love that sets the plot into motion.

Throughout the nineteenth century, Mexico underwent a series of political upheavals, power struggles, wars and revolutions. In Gustave Aimard's pulse-pounding Western The Rebel Chief, a beautiful region of Mexico gripped by political turmoil serves as the backdrop for an unlikely romance.

Though he was born and died in France, action-adventure writer Gustave Aimard was endlessly enamored with the Americas, and he journeyed extensively in the United States, Mexico, and South America over the course of his life. In The Gold-Seekers, Aimard draws on his own time as a miner in nineteenth-century...

The lush South American lowlands known as the Pampas have been the site of a tense tete-a-tete between the indigenous communities and the descendents of European settlers for centuries. Gustave Aimard's Last of the Incas is set against this backdrop, and recounts a period during which the tensions between the two groups boiled over.

EXTRAIT:  ABÉLARD : Inutile d’avoir la moindre idée de sa philosophie, ni même de connaître le titre de ses ouvrages. Faire une allusion discrète à la mutilation opérée sur lui par Fulbert. Tombeau d’Héloïse et...

One of the most popular (and most prolific) illustrators of all time, Gustave Doré (1832–1883) established his reputation with works of art that exuded a romantic style, an abundance of detail, and a dramatic use of light and shade. This collection of drawings, created during Dore's trip to Spain...