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A Simple Soul
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Gustave Flaubert's short story follows Félicité, a devoted servant whose long life of quiet self-sacrifice culminates in her attachment to a pet parrot. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French realism and studies of ordinary lives will find it rewarding.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
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