古斯塔夫·福楼拜

《包法利夫人》，是福楼拜的长篇小说代表作。1856年开始在《巴黎杂志》上连载，一开始因内容太过敏感而被指控为淫秽之作，批评这部书“违反公共和宗教、道德及善良风俗”，并要求删除一些片段，福楼拜坚持不删改一字，1857年2月7日经法院审判无罪，福楼拜开始声名大噪。 …

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents …

Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. Although it was conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes, and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice, Flaubert did not begin the work in earnest until 1872, at a time when financial …

The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a book which the French author Gustave Flaubert spent practically his whole life fitfully working on, in three versions he completed in 1849, 1856 and 1872 before publishing the final version in 1874. It takes as its subject the famous temptation faced by Saint Anthony the Great in …