Gustave Flaubert

But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat...

Though ML was familiar with the canonical English Victorian novelists (and, less usually, with Samuel Richardson 's Sir Charles Grandison, to whose great length she alludes with approval), those writers she acknowledged as influences...

The Selected Stories was hailed as an important literary event, and produced particularly interesting reviews from A. S. Byatt and John Updike . Byatt wrote that Munro was the equal of Chekhov or de Maupassant

Madame Bovary, EOB 's stage adaptation of Flaubert 's novel, was produced at the Palace, Watford.

The title story uses mud or muddy almost thirty times. MR writes, as always, as a feminist; these stories occupy a borderline between the self-making of women and their appropriation into patriarchal stories. She enjoys...

She dedicates this book for the muse this time, and explains that although it concerns purely fictional persons and events, it is in part inspired by Jean-Luc Steinmetz 's life of Mallarmé , by Flaubert

Her death was reported widely in the press. Flaubert allegedly wrote in a letter that [a]t her funeral I cried like an ass, and the Russian writer Turgenev pronounced on her passing: What a...

GS earned a remarkable 130,000 francs from this book. Flaubert earned only 3,300 francs for Madame Bovary.

During frequent trips to Paris, GS made the acquaintance of admirers who included Gustave Flaubert . She enjoyed a correspondence with Victor Hugo , though the two never met. She continued to...

The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and...

GS began work on these short stories while she was translating Flaubert 's Trois contes as an exercise.They have been reprinted (in a single volume with Tender Buttons) in the Signet Classics series, with...

Henry Sidgwick compared this novel to Madame Bovary and concluded that Yonge was better than Flaubert . The Athenæum felt that only readers of The Daisy Chain would really appreciate it.