Author

Books by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was a French novelist regarded as one of the supreme stylists in Western literature. His major works include Madame Bovary (1857), Salammbô (1862), A Sentimental Education (1869), and Three Tales (1877). Flaubert was famously painstaking — he could spend days on a single sentence — and his development of free indirect discourse transformed the possibilities of prose fiction. He was tried for obscenity over Madame Bovary, acquitted, and the novel became an immediate success.