628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBNs
9780316118781, 0316118788
OCLC
ocm60651102
Includes bibliographical references (pages [599]-608) and index.
Prologue: Rouen -- The surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu -- The cynosure of all eyes -- School days -- Stories and histories -- First love -- The grand tour -- A fortunate fall -- Deaths in the family -- Louis, Louise, and Max -- 1848 -- Voyage en Orient: Egypt -- Voyage en Orient: after Egypt -- The perfect hostages -- Madame Bovary -- On trial -- An island of his own -- Entering middle age -- Imperial society -- L'Éducation sentimentale -- War years -- Orphanhood -- "We are all of us émigrés, left over from another age" -- A fruitful intermission -- The unraveling