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Excerpt from Of Gustave Elaubert: Ir 7407 Englished M. French Sheldon, Saxon 5 23, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, and Tribune Building, New York The French man of genius whose masterpiece is now for the first time presented in English to the attention of the Anglo-Saxon world was thirty-six years of age before he had published anything, and had attained the ripe age of forty-one when Salammbô made its appearance. Gustave Flaubert was born in the old town of Rouen, in Normandy, on the 12th of December, 1821. Both his father and his brother were noted physicians and surgeons, a fact which probably prompted Sainte-Beuve, when he came to criticise and to praise Gustave Flaubert, to remark that the author handled his pen as others handled the scalpel. The father was for more than thirty years chief surgeon of the Hotel Dieu in Rouen, and was the author of many valuable treatises on medical science. The son Gustave, who had a passionate admiration for his elder brother, had determined to study medicine; but he soon perceived, says an acute biographer, that the observation of the phenomena of the moral order was better suited to his character, and he abruptly closed his scientific studies and turned to literature. There are few instances in letters of a career so tardily begun ripening so quickly into renown, or concentrating into a few years so many excitements, struggles, debates, and victories. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Of Gustave Elaubert
• Subtitle: IR 7407 Englished M. French Sheldon, Saxon 5 23, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, and Tribune Building, New York (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Gustave Flaubert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452
• EAN: 9781332033898
• ISBN: 9781332033898
• ID: 09809901
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 599 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. July 2015

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