Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Gustave Flaubert

 

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1850-1899
1900-1945
''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...John Masefield Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's ...Henry James Gustave FlaubertcorrespondencePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Fl...Charlotte Mew Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...Somerset Maugham Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read ...Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Flaubert La Tentation de Saint Antoine.Print: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chise...Walter Sickert Gustave FlaubertlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c...Virginia Woolf Gustave FlaubertlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F...Elizabeth Bowen Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertL'Education SentimentalePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto...Arnold Bennett Gustave FlaubertUn Coeur SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali...Antonia White Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907: 'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai...Leonard Woolf Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En...Vernon Lee Gustave FlaubertCorrespondancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertLa Tentation de saint AntoinePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Re...Wilfred Owen Gustave FlaubertSalammboPrint: Book
1850-1899'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded...Zoe Procter Gustave Flaubert[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is c...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertSalammbôPrint: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book

 

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