Flaubert cover art

Flaubert

A Life

Preview

Try for $0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Flaubert

Written by: Geoffrey Wall
Narrated by: John Lee
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $33.31

Buy Now for $33.31

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

Geoffrey Wall gives us Flaubert in all his contradictory splendor: as a man who lived quietly at home in the sphere of his widowed mother, writing novels at a rate of five words an hour; as an irregular visitor to Paris, where he participated in important literary and social milieus; and as a passionate traveler whose trips put him in company with courtesans, actresses, acrobats, gypsies, idiots, and simpletons of every stripe, until he returned home "to live like an oyster". Flaubert's outwardly calm and inwardly turbulent life created the complex, intriguing world of his imperishable novels and stories.©2001 Geoffrey Wall (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Art & Literature Literary Fiction
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What the critics say

"The clearest, most satisfyingly biographical account of Flaubert to date." (Independent)
"Extraordinarily accomplished....The result of this nimble thinking, and even sharper writing, is one of the best biographies of this or any other year." (Sunday Telegraph)

What listeners say about Flaubert

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.