Rites of Compassion: Old Mrs. Harris and a Simple Heart

by Willa Cather and Gustave Flaubert

Book Overview

Personally selected by award-winning writer Mary Gordon, these two stories by Willa Cather and Gustave Flaubert render a flawless portrait of characters who unquestioningly offer their compassionate service to those that take them for granted.

Old Mrs. Harris is the staunch matriarch of a busy house (the look of which Cather based on her own childhood home), brimming with her spendthrift son-in-law, her displaced Southern debutante daughter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558615628
• ISBN13: 9781558615625
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.1"