Gustave Flaubert
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
First published in 1869, this novel offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a crucial period of European history. Flaubert combines intricate political and social upheaval with a close scrutiny of individual motives to produce one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters in nineteenth-century New England; a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her sisters and her feelings for a brooding gentleman; the wife of a country doctor seeks happiness through romantic affairs and social climbing in nineteenth-century France; a woman abandons her child and husband for a handsome young officer, but soon she believes the officer has grown tired...