num_pages: 57
description: Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, portrayed a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage, was published in 1857. This extract is from Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour, a reconstruction of his formative journey to Egypt as a young man, beautifully portraying his sense of wonder and decadent surrender to the sensual delights of nineteenth-century Cairo.
language: English
title: The Desert and the Dancing Girls
titlecomplete: The Desert and the Dancing Girls
genres: Nonfiction, Travel, Egypt, France
ratings_count: 68
places: Egypt
publisher: Penguin Books