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A Short Biography of Gustave Flaubert

Author Name:

Gustave Flaubert

Born As:

Gustave Flaubert

Other Names:

Gustave Flaubert

Born:

12 Dec 1821

Died:

8 May 1880




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Realist novelist                          
Selected Works:

Mémoires d’un fou - 1838 - tr. Memoirs of a Madman
Madame Bovary - 1857
Salammbô - 1862
L'Éducation sentimentale - 1869 - tr. Sentimental Education
La Tentation de Saint Antoine - 1874 - tr. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Trois contes - 1877 - tr. Three Tales - More short stories published in "Early Writings"
Bouvard et Pécuchet - 1881, posthumously published
Dictionnaire des idées reçues - 1911, posthumously published, tr. Dictionary of Received Ideas
November - 1842

Correspondence - in French
Correspondance, I–V

Correspondence - in English
Selections:

Selected Letters1953, 2001
Selected Letters - 1997
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour - 1972
Flaubert and Turgenev, a Friendship in Letters: The Complete Correspondence - 1985

Correspondence with George Sand:

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters - 1921
Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence - 1993.                          
Mother Anne Justine Caroline Fleuriot
Father Achille-Cléophas Flaubert