Book · 1877 · Fiction

A Simple Heart

Name: A Simple Heart
Author: Gustave Flaubert

Melville House Publishing · 62 pages

★ 6.5 editorial score

Félicité serves one Norman household for half a century, loses everyone she loves, and fastens her faith to a stuffed parrot. Flaubert grants her a dignity the world never did.

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