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Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

by Gustave Flaubert · 1849

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

Subject
travelhistorybiography
Setting
19th centuryEgyptMiddle EastAfrica
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 230 pages
Form
epistolary

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