Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive ...

But at last he arrived. And quite magnificent he looked too, perched on a branch which was screwed on to a mahogany plinth, with one foot held raised, his head cocked to one side and holding ...

When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work ...

Gustave Flaubert's French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness. The first great novel of adultery stars John Hurt as the narrator, with Conrad Nelson as Charles, Sarah Smart as Emma and Brigit ...

There is a fashion in literature, too. Once upon a time, young ladies would read romance novels and imagine that a real man should resemble the main characters of the books. Writers such as Gustave ...