‘There are in me, literarily speaking, two distinct persons,” Gustave Flaubert wrote to his lover, the poet Louise Colet. One was “infatuated with bombast, lyricism, eagle flights, sonorities of ...

The wind is warm as it rustles the great bank of yellow reeds on the riverside. They susurrate, whispering to each other, nodding and weaving their delicate heads together like lovers. The breeze ...

A trove of letters from Gustave Flaubert discovered in the attic of a Home Counties farmhouse reveals a softer side to the famously cynical author of Madame Bovary. The letters, written to English ...

There is probably no modern writer who is more talked about and less well-known than Gustave Flaubert. It is general believed, for example, that Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary with a deep distaste for ...

The handwritten manuscript is page after page of scratched-out notes, smudges, comments and ink blots that reveal just how arduous the French novelist Gustave Flaubert found the writing process.

The exclamation "Madame Bovary, c'est moi!" is attributed to Gustave Flaubert, creator of the 19th century's original desperate housewife, but this is not Flaubert's Madame Bovary – it's an adaptation ...

The project to bring the final manuscript and multiple rough drafts to the general public for free took five years – the same time it took the perfectionist 19th century French author to complete his ...

These stories of relationship dramas and evolving partnerships will fill the “Couples Therapy”-sized hole in your life with wisdom, schadenfreude and humor — and sometimes all of the above. By Sadie ...

In the middle of the 19th century, Europe's fascination with Egypt was at its zenith. Well‑heeled young travellers set out for Cairo and Karnak with all the excitement of modern school-leavers jetting ...