Three short works by Gustave Flaubert

"Three Short Works by Gustave Flaubert" by Gustave Flaubert is a collection of short stories published in 1877. The work comprises three distinct tales: the story of a devoted servant whose simple life reveals an extraordinary capacity for love, a medieval legend about a nobleman cursed to commit patricide who seeks redemption through service, and a retelling of the biblical story of John the Baptist's execution at Herod's court. Each story explores themes of devotion, fate, and spiritual transformation through vastly different settings and characters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
Title Three short works
The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Tales_(Flaubert)
Credits Etext produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 10458
Release Date
Last Update Oct 28, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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