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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour »

Authors: Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller
ISBN-13: 9780140435825, ISBN-10: 0140435824
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Gustave Flaubert

Book Synopsis

At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a sensibility on tour, Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyage to the "Orient." Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of Flaubert's traveling companion Maxime Du Camp, Francis Steegmuller reconstructs this formative journey - through the bazaars and brothels of Cairo, down the length of the Nile, to the fabled Red Sea.

Library Journal

This 1972 volume was gleaned from Flaubert's diaries, letters, and travel notes. It reconstructs an 1849 trip to Egypt, Cairo, and the Red Sea area.

	Editor's Foreword
I	The Background of the Journey	9
II	Croisset to Cairo	18
III	First Days in Cairo	37
IV	The Pyramids and Sakkara	48
V	In Cairo	60
VI	Up the Nile to Wadi Halfa	97
VII	Down the Nile to Thebes	138
VIII	Thebes	163
IX	To the Red Sea	178
X	Last Weeks in Egypt	197
	Editor's Epilogue	214
	Appendix: 'The Crew of the Cange', by Maxime Du Camp	223
	Bibliographical Note	228