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Three stories by a French master

Three Tales is a work by Gustave Flaubert that was originally published in French in 1877. It consists of the short stories "A Simple Heart", "Saint Julian the Hospitalier," and "H rodias".

This collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian," and "Herodias" offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. In settings as familiar to the author as Normandy or as distant as biblical Palestine, these three stories reveal... Read Full Overview

"A Simple Heart" is a story about a servant girl named Felicit . After her one and only love Th odore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicit quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l' v que, where she picks up work in a widow's house... Read Full Overview

"A Simple Heart", or Un coeur simple in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicit?. After her one and only love Th?odore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicit? quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'?v?que, where she... Read Full Overview

Gustave Flaubert was one of the 19th century's most famous authors. A French novelist, Flaubert led the way for the Realism literary movement in that country at a time that it was sweeping across Europe and the United States, and works like "Madame Bovary" are still wildly popular... Read Full Overview

Acclaimed by Italo Calvino as "one of the most extraordinary spirtual journeys ever accomplished outside any religion," Three Tales (1877) was the last of Flaubert's works published during his lifetime. The ambitious range of the stories -- "A Simple Heart," "The Legend of Saint... Read Full Overview

First published in French in 1877, "Three Tales" is a collection of three short stories by the celebrated French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Although Flaubert is most well-known for his novels, he took a hiatus near the end of his career to produce a collection of short stories... Read Full Overview

Publicados en un solo volumen en 1877, Flaubert inici la redacci n de estos tres cuentos en 1875, sumido en un intenso desaliento causado por circunstancias hist ricas y personales, y en medio de serias dudas acerca de su capacidad literaria. Aparentemente muy dispares entre... Read Full Overview

"Trois contes" de Gustave Flaubert. Romancier fran ais (1821-1880).

Trois Contes (+Biographie et Bibliographie) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish): Trois contes est le titre d'un recueil de trois nouvelles de Gustave Flaubert parues sous forme d' pisodes dans deux journaux diff rents au cours du mois d'avril 1877 et publi es dans leur int gralit le... Read Full Overview

"A Simple Heart", or Un Coeur simple in French, is a story about a servant girl named Felicit?. After her one and only love Th?odore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicit? quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l'?v?que, where she... Read Full Overview