Three Stories
by Gustave Flaubert · Trois contes
Assigned by 2 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1877
- Form
- Romance and tale
- Language
- French
- Length
- Short · 110 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThree Tales, translated by Roger WhitehousePenguin Classics, 2005A precise modern translation with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall.
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Flaubert's last completed book gathers three stories from three ages. A Simple Heart follows Félicité, a Norman servant, through fifty years of loyalty and loss to a death in which her stuffed parrot merges with the Holy Ghost. The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller retells a medieval saint's life, from a boyhood of slaughtering animals through the murder of his parents to his embrace of a leper. Herodias recounts the feast at which Salome's dance costs John the Baptist his head.
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