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A SIMPLE HEART

A SIMPLE HEART

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

3,75 €
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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2015
ISBN:
978-0-14-139750-4
Pages:
64
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'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy ', 'Your servant, sir ' and 'Hail Mary '' With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Flaubert's works available in Penguin Classics are Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education, Three Tales and Salammbo.

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