Three Tales: A Simple Heart, Saint Julian the Hospitalier and Herodias (Complete Edition)

A Simple Heart is a story about a servant girl named Felicité. After her one and only love Théodore purportedly marries a well-to-do woman to avoid conscription, Felicité quits the farm where she works and heads for Pont-l''Évèque, where she picks up work in a widow''s house as a servant. It was inspired by several events in Flaubert''s own life: he also lived in a farmhouse in rural Normandy, he ...