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In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot, F licit , a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's... Read Full Overview

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade... Read Full Overview

Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collectible, they are the first single-volume... Read Full Overview

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 - 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection,... Read Full Overview

L'Histoire d'un coeur simple est tout bonnement le r?cit d'une vie obscure, celle d'une pauvre fille de campagne, d?vote mais mystique, d?vou?e sans exaltation et tendre comme du pain frais. Elle aime successivement un homme, les enfants de sa ma?tresse, un neveu, un vieillard... Read Full Overview

F licit is a French maid who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, F licit is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives.

Félicité, une servante de cinquante ans, est au service de Mme Aubain, une bourgeoise de Pont l'Évêque, veuve et mère de deux enfants. Son quotidien est routinier. Elle est un modèle de propreté et d'organisation malgré le luxe perdu de la demeure. À la mort de ses parents, Félicité... Read Full 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... Read Full Overview

Pendant un demi-si cle, les bourgeoises de Pont l'Ev que envi rent Mme Aubain sa servante F licit . Pour cent francs par an, elle faisait la cuisine et le m nage, cousait, lavait, repassait, savait brider un cheval, engraisser les volailles, battre le beurre, et resta fid le... Read Full Overview

R SUM Un Coeur simple est une nouvelle de Gustave Flaubert, parue pour la premi re fois en 1877 dans le recueil "Trois Contes". Elle raconte la vie de F licit , une servante d vou e et humble, qui travaille pour Madame Aubain, une veuve bourgeoise. Au fil des ann es, F licit... Read Full Overview

Un coeur simple, la premi?re nouvelle de Gustave Flaubert est parue dans le livre Trois contes, publi? en 1877.UN CoeUR SIMPLE EST AU D?PART UNE NOUVELLE DE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT TIR?E DU RECUEIL TROIS CONTES, QUI RETRACE L'HISTOIRE D'UNE SERVANTE AU XIXE SI?CLE, EN NORMANDIE, F?LICIT?... Read Full Overview

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

F licit is a French maid who is devoted to helping her mistress and her two children navigate their new life following her husband's untimely death. Despite her lack of formal skills, F licit is an endearing figure who brings warmth and stability into their lives.