The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Papyras Classics

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Chapter 8

Gustave Flaubert

Born in 1821, died in 1880; traveled in the East; published in 1857 his best-known work, "Madame Bovary," which led to litigation as to the morality of the story: ultimately acquitted; published "Salâmmbo" in 1858; author of other novels and plays.