Madame Bovary made Gustave Flaubert the most famous writer in Paris, but thanks to a bad publishing deal hes barely earned enough cash for a croissant " let alone enough to indulge his appetite for oysters. In fact, hes flat broke. His friends Zola and Turgenev beg him to dumb down his work for the masses, but Gustave isnt compromising. Theres only one thing for it " Flaubert must find a job.This sparkling debut play by Orlando Figes " one of todays most popular and distinguished historia