Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

by Peter Brooks

Book Overview

From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer 1870 through spring 1871

From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris, Peter Brooks examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465096026
• ISBN13: 9780465096022
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.4"