One of the world's first set of travel photographs is up for auction and it's expected to fetch up to $20,000 (£15,096). The images — which are widely considered to mark the birth of travel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...