Books by Gustave Flaubert

That is from his November 1866 letter to Hippolyte Taine, reproduced in the Francis Steegmuller collection .  Here is my recent post on why most travel books are not good enough.  Here is a 2006 MR post on which are the best travel books .

I never loved this book before (sadly I cannot do serious reading in French), but now I do.  Order it here .  Reviews — mostly raves — are here .  Right now Natasha is enjoying Davis's short fiction and I've ordered some of her other work as well.

That is from his quite interesting Bouvard and Pecuchet .  This unfinished book is a parody of self-education and perhaps of gay marriage as well.