The Nineteenth Century Novel
Subtitle: Identities (Nineteenth-Century Novel)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415238274
First sentence: On 14 November 1850, the twenty-nine-year-old Gustave Flaubert wrote to his close friend Louis Bouilhet that he was planning to write a novel about 'a young girl who dies a virgin and mystic after living with her father and mother in a small provincial town' (Flaubert, 1980, p.130).