News about Gustave Flaubert

Patricia Nicol, a British writer, has compiled a list of the best books on difficult marriages including Maggie O'Farrell's Marriage Portrait and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert's The Marriage Portrait.

PHILIP NORMAN: For decades, employees in dispute with their managers went on strike or 'worked to rule,' a term that is often described as a "gooslow." In the 1970s, however, they became increasingly identified as 'taking industrial action,' a term that was both self-righteous and duplicit, since reaction today corresponded to inaction.