A Simple Soul

by Gustave Flaubert

Overview

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress-although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786057876331
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	62
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for "le mot juste" ("the precise word").

Other Books of Flaubert:
• Madame Bovary (1857)
• Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881)
• Salammbô (1862)

Table of Contents

About Author

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Editorial Reviews

"Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker."

"On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down below, on the sidewalk, no one. This spreading silence increased the tranquility of things. In the distance, the caulkers’ hammers tamped the hulls, and a heavy breeze brought the smell of tar."

"In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier."

― Gustave Flaubert, A Simple Heart

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