The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830–1857, and 1857–1880
Author
Gustave Flaubert, edited by Francis Steegmuller
Publisher
Faber & Faber, London, 1981
Printing Details
1981 & 1984. Paperback first editions. Each 23.5 × 15.5cm, 250pp + 309pp.
A selection of the letters of French novelist Gustave Flaubert from his unhappy time at school and torments as a lover, through his travels to the temples and brothels of Egypt; to Palestine, Turkey, and then later to Tunisia. Flaubert writes as he was was witness to the genesis of some of the most remarkable literature of the nineteenth century, and finally to his cultured but financially insecure old age.
Condition
Reading copies. The spines are creased but the contents in good condition. The inner binding in volume 1 a little wear and both books with some finger-marking to the page edges.
Price
£12.00
