November (Hesperus Classics) - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave

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9781843911128: November (Hesperus Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1843911124 ISBN 13: 9781843911128

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2005

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An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notions of desire and longing to most remarkable effect. Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a young man withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life. His increasing hopelessness gives way to a yearning for romance?surely the love of a woman can deliver him the purpose he so craves? Convinced of the truth of this, he visits Marie, a kindhearted prostitute?yet Marie, too, is starved of love and longs for acceptance. Together, they form a tragic portrait of personal anguish, heralding the extraordinary outpouring of romantic longing found in Flaubert’s later novels. Most famous for Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert is one of the undisputed masters of 19th-century fiction.

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"'Flaubert's novella is an unsurpassed testament of adolescence.' - from the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer"

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First translation into English for over seventy years of a neglected literary gem by the author of ‘Madame Bovary’

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