The book includes the most famous works, the novel "Madame Bovary" and the novel "A Simple Soul". These works are imbued with a sense of true humanity and impress the reader with their external simplicity combined with the depth of psychological analysis.Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" (1856) is an important milestone in the development of French and European literature. This novel marked the beginning of a new type of artistic prose, significantly different from the prose of previous eras. The novel belongs to realistic literature, but at the same time it gave impetus to other literary directions and currents of the second half of the 19th century. In the novel, Flaubert followed the "objective method", the main feature of which is the elimination of direct authorial presence in the work, i.e. disparate digressions, comments, evaluations of the depicted, emotional outbursts, etc. For the first time in this novel, unproprietary direct language is widely used, which will acquire widespread in the literature of the 20th century.