This image is the cover for the book Salammbo, Classics To Go

Salammbo, Classics To Go

For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880, was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert. (Wikipedia)