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Gustave Flaubert

Born

in Rouen, Normandy, Kingdom of France

December 12, 1821

Died

May 08, 1880

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Victor Hugo, François-René de Chateaubriand, Miguel de Cervantes, Lord ...more

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Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends to be neutral, emphasizing the values and importance of style as an objective method of presenting reality". He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. ...more

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Gustave Flaubert’s books

Average rating: 3.71 · 422,865 ratings · 23,679 reviews · 2,191 distinct works • Similar authors

	Madame Bovary 3.71 avg rating — 356,395 ratings — published 1856 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentimental Education 3.81 avg rating — 23,830 ratings — published 1869 — 912 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Simple Heart 3.45 avg rating — 8,661 ratings — published 1877 — 499 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, Roger Whitehouse (Translator), Geoffrey Wall (Introduction) 3.62 avg rating — 7,432 ratings — published 1877 — 650 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salammbo 3.74 avg rating — 6,225 ratings — published 1862 — 301 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert, Raymond Queneau (Preface), Mark Polizzotti (Translator, Introduction) 3.83 avg rating — 4,319 ratings — published 1881 — 673 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temptation of St. Antony 3.82 avg rating — 3,219 ratings — published 1874	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas 3.77 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1913 — 223 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	November by Gustave Flaubert, Nadine Gordimer (Foreword by), Andrew Brown (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,369 ratings — published 1842 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert, Andrew Brown (Translator), Germaine Greer (Foreword by) 3.66 avg rating — 1,299 ratings — published 1838 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 144 pages

49 votes, 22.9%

1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages

37 votes, 17.3%

1874, The Mysterious Island byJules Verne, 723 pages

21 votes, 9.8%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

20 votes, 9.3%

1848, The Lady of the Camellias byAlexandre Dumas, 240 pages

19 votes, 8.9%

1874, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

16 votes, 7.5%

900, The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous, 906 pages

15 votes, 7.0%

1759, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman byLaurence Sterne, 588 pages

12 votes, 5.6%

1853, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 257 pages

12 votes, 5.6%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

11 votes, 5.1%

1862, No Name byWilkie Collins, 748 pages

2 votes, 0.9%

214 total votes

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