A Simple Soul

by Gustave Flaubert

Overview

A servant girl named Felicite. After her one and only love Theodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicite quits the farm where she works and heads to another location, where she picks up work in a widow's house as a servant. Despite her life being seemingly pointless, she has within her the power to love. She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911429340
Publisher:	Interactive Media
Publication date:	05/15/2016
Series:	World Classics
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	572 KB

About the Author

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was a French novelist who was best known for exploring realism in his work. Hailing from an upper-class family, Flaubert was exposed to literature at an early age. He received a formal education at Lycée Pierre-Corneille, before venturing to Paris to study law. A serious illness forced him to change his career path, reigniting his passion for writing. He completed his first novella, November, in 1842, launching a decade-spanning career. His most notable work, Madame Bovary was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece.

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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