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Madame Emma Bovary, just like Anna Karenina to Russia, Jane Eyre to England, and Hesetta Prynne to America, came out of the writings of Gustave Flaubert and entered the hearts of every French person. This young man was born into a medical family in Rouen, northwest France, and has been interested in literature since he was a child. The years he spent in his father's hospital developed his surgeon-like insight and calm and sharp analytical methods, which had a great influence on his future writing. In high school, Flaubert began literary creation. In 1841, he went to Paris Law School to study. At the age of 22, he dropped out of school because he was suspected of suffering from epilepsy. Since then, he has lived in Rouen in a state of semi-seclusion, concentrating on writing and never married.

This book is a collection of Flaubert's classic works. It's in English, so English lovers shouldn't miss it. Take "Madame Bovary" as an example. This is a novel written by the French writer Flaubert and first published in 1857. The novel is based on a true story: the poisoning case of a country doctor's wife. The work tells the story of Emma, ​​a peasant girl who received an aristocratic education. It describes a love affair that is very common both in life and in literary works. However, the author's brushwork perceives sensitive areas that others have not touched. He uses delicate brushstrokes to describe the process of the protagonist's emotional degradation. The work criticizes the negative influence of negative romantic literature, sharply criticizes the evil deeds of provincial aristocrats, landowners, loan sharks, and philistines, exposes the decadent social customs of capitalist society and the vulgarity and vulgarity of small citizens, and truly reproduces the cruel reality under the cover of superficial prosperity in the early stages of capitalist development.

Stupidity armed with knowledge, mediocrity adorned with respectability. The majority is always right and the minority is always wrong. Let's consult the Commonplace Dictionary to "find the words you must say to be a decent and approachable person in society." "Dictionary of Commonplaces" is a legendary short book by the great French writer Flaubert. It is derived from Flaubert's posthumous comic novel "Bovart and Pécuchet". It has a special form. It presents a dictionary compiled by two scribes after they abandoned their jobs to join the "scientific career". It is both a "work hidden in the novel" and a "work outside the novel". It was edited and published in France more than 30 years after the author's death. The Dictionary of Commonplaces ridicules various prejudices, prejudices, and conclusions of "bourgeois" in the form of entries. It can be called an encyclopedia of human stupidity and ignorance. Flaubert, an innovator ahead of his time, had long wanted to ridicule the world at that time. From today's perspective, it has a bitter irony on human nature. This legendary little book is unique among Flaubert's creations. Studies of Flaubert's works such as "Critical Biography of Flaubert" and "Flaubert's Parrot" have analyzed it. Many writers such as famous contemporary writers Milan Kundera and Alain de Botton have talked about the beauty of this book.