. "[In this book, the author] gives [an] account of Flaubert's tour of the Near East with his friend Maxime du Camp, a riot of exotic color and nonstop sex. He also mines gold in Flaubert's tempestuous relationship with Colet, a writer and the paramour of several famous writers, whose sense of personal drama and colossal self-absorption made her a worthy match for the man she would later call \"that insidious Norman.\" -http://www.bn.com"@en . "Flaubert a biography"@en . . . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "1800 - 1899" . . . .