{"product_id":"9781590171165","title":"Flaubert and Madame Bovary","description":"Author: Steegmuller, Francis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781590171165\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE US\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Jun 2004\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancis SteegmullerP#39;s beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the worldP#39;s greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young Flaubert, prone to mysterious fits, hypochondriacal, at odds with and yet dependent on his bourgeois family. Then, drawing on FlaubertP#39;s voluminous correspondence, Steegmuller tracks his subject through friendships and love affairs, a trip to the Orient, nervous breakdown and tenuous recovery, and finally into the study, where a mind at once restless and jaded finds a focus in the precisely detailed reality of an imagined woman, utterly ordinary in her unhappiness, whose story was to revolutionize literature.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48165314691230,"sku":"UBD-9781590171165","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781590171165.jpg?v=1787134119","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781590171165","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}