On Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick Brown. In the summer of 1930, Willa Cather chanced to form a brief friendship with an elderly lady at the Grand Hôtel d’Aix in Aix-les-Bains. As they chatted, ...

At last, a biography commensurate with the outsize personality and genius of Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880). Brown, author of an acclaimed biography of Zola, offers a tantalizing, penetrating study that ...

Brown is no slouch himself when it comes to research. His new biography of Flaubert is almost as much a cultural history of France in the mid-19th century as it is a life of the author. We learn ...

Doubly so when one considers that the scandal surrounding the book unwittingly served to smuggle the revolution of Flaubert’s art into the hands of an unsuspecting mainstream. A full 20 years before ...