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  • Madame Bovary

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Wall ...
    'A masterpiece' Julian BarnesFlaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. Its heroine, Emma Bovary, is stifled by provincial life as the wife of a doctor. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Sentimental Education

    by Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall ...
    Translated by Robert Baldick ...
    Sentimental Education begins with the hero - Frederic Moreau - leaving Paris and returning to the provinces and his mother. Part love story, part historical novel and satire it tells of how Moreau is driven by passion for an unattainable older woman. His 'sentimental education' turns out to be more of an anxious quest than a happy one, echoing Flaubert's own life experience of unrequited love. ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Ye Sundial Booke

    by Thomas Geoffrey Wall Henslow ...
    Ye Sundial Booke is a charming and comprehensive exploration of sundials, blending historical insight, practical guidance, and literary delight. Authored by T. Geoffrey W. Henslow and first published in 1914, the book serves as both a manual and a celebration of the ancient art of timekeeping by the sun. Henslow delves into the origins and evolution of sundials, tracing their use from antiquity ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ethnic Tourism

    Impacts, Challenges and Opportunities

    by Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall ...
    The book explores emerging themes, concepts, and issues in ethnic tourism, through examination of theoretical underpinnings and empirical research in various ethnic destinations worldwide.It encapsulates cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions of ethnic tourism, which is a force of change in many ethnic communities and suggests means through which local benefits can be enhanced and costs ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Planning for Ethnic Tourism

    by Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures, ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is growing concern in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Three Tales

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Translated by Roger Whitehouse ...
    First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and together form a triumphant conclusion to Flaubert's literary career. With elegant simplicity, 'A Simple Heart' relates the story of Félicité - an uneducated serving-woman who retains her Catholic faith despite a life of desolation and loss. Inspired by a stained-glass ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Tourism in Development: Reflective Essays

    by Brian E M King, Richard Sharpley, David Airey, Thomas Baum, Richard Butler, Donna Chambers, Dora Dongzhi Chen, Erik Cohen0, Larry Dwyer1, Afamefuna Paul Eyisi2, Alison M. Gill3, Ulrike Gretzel4, Joan Henderson5, Carson Jenkins6, Louisa Yee-Sum Lee7, Shaun Mann8, Shelagh Mooney9, Alastair M. Morrison0, Nneoma Grace Ololo1, Philip Pearce2, Hanqin Qiu3, Terry Stevens4, Sienny Thio5, Geoffrey Wall6, Stephen Wanhill7, Allan Williams8, Roy Wood9 ...
    Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now ... Read more

    $116.29 USD

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    Flaubert

    A Life

    by Geoffrey Wall ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    A blond giant of a man with green eyes and a resonant actor’s voice, Gustave Flaubert was perhaps the finest French writer of the nineteenth century. He lived quietly in the provinces with his widowed mother, composing his novels at the rate of five words an hour. He detested his respectable neighbors, and they, in turn, helped to ensure his infamy as a writer of immoral books. Geoffrey Wall’s ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

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  • Sentimental Education - An Autobiographical Novel (Complete Edition)

    A realist, ironic tale of youthful passion amid the 1848 Revolution and Second Empire

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Sentimental Education is an autobiographical novel. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man at the time of the French Revolution of 1848. The novel describes the life of a young man (Frédéric Moreau) living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences (including the ... Read more

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  • Gabriel's Moon

    A Gabriel Dax Novel

    by William Boyd ...
    Series Book 1 - Gabriel Dax
    From the internationally bestselling author beloved by readers everywhere, William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsessionGabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on ... Read more

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  • Demon Copperhead

    A Novel

    by Barbara Kingsolver ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNew York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year""Demo... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Mother's Boy

    A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son

    by Patrick Gale ...
    'Tender, evocative' TLS 'Richly engaging' Spectator A Radio 4 Serial Fiction Book of the Week'A characteristically tender novel about a young man growing up in the shadow of one war and the whispers of the next' Observer'A wonderful novel about relationships, particularly between a mother and son. A compelling read, beautifully crafted and sensitively ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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