HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull marriage she is soon tempted into a brief romantic liaison with another man. Although...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull marriage she is soon tempted into a brief romantic liaison with another man. Although...
French novelist and short story writer, Gustave Flaubert, was considered to be a master of style, obsessively devoted to finding the right word in every piece of literature he produced. As a child he expressed great imagination and took in all the stories he could from his nurse and neighbors, and in doing so, he prepared himself for a life consumed by literature and history. In addition to his “Madame Bovary”, his first published novel and the one considered to be his masterpiece, Flaubert is...
«Госпожа Бовари» (1857) – первый опубликованный роман выдающегося французского писателя Гюстава Флобера (1821–1880). В этом великом творении литературы, считающимся поворотным пунктом в развитии современного романа, Флобер пытается разрешить извечный конфликт между иллюзией и реальностью. В книге представлен неадаптированный текст на языке оригинала.
Третий век до Рождества Христова. Разоренный едва отгремевшей войной с Римской республикой Карфаген не смог заплатить жалованье наемным воинам и попытался успокоить их, устроив обильный пир. Там, на пиру, и появилась нежданно прекрасная Саламбо, дочь знаменитого карфагенского полководца Гамилькара. Там и покорила она сердце могучего ливийца Мато. Совет Карфагена обманом увел наемников из города, но вскоре разозленные варвары вернулись и осадили его. Вождь восставших солдат, неустрашимый Мато,...
