Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) was attracted to literature at an early
age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while
a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from
journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa and a
stormy liaison with the poet Louise Colet, his life was dedicated
to the practice of his art. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was
marred by government prosecution for "immorality." Salammb (1862)
and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public
reception. Not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his
genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his
reputation was supreme. His final bitterness and disillusion were
vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pecuchet,
left unfinished at his death.
An award-winning writer, feminist leader, political theorist,
journalist, and editor, Robin Morgan has published seventeen books,
including six of poetry, two of fiction, and the classic
anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful and Sisterhood Is Global. A
founder of contemporary U.S. feminism, she has also been a leader
in the international women's movement for twenty-five years, and
she is the author of a book of poetry, A Hot January- Poems
1996-1999, and the acclaimed Saturday's Child- A Memoir. In 1990,
as Editor-in-Chief of Ms., she relaunched the magazine as an
international, award-winning bimonthly free of advertising, then
resigned in 1993 to become Consulting Editor. A recipient of the
National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry), the Front Page
Award for Distinguished Journalism, the Feminist Majority
Foundation Award, and numerous other honors, she lives in New York
City.
“Possibly the most beautifully written book ever composed [and] the
most important novel of the century.”—Frank O’Connor
“Perhaps we identify with Emma because we too feel an emptiness at
the center of things—an emptiness we try to fill with books, with
fantasies, with sex, with things. Her yearning is nothing more or
less than the human condition in the modern world. Her search for
ecstasy is ours.”—Erica Jong
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