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A Simple Soul

Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
1 hour 21 minutes
ISBN
9781802565546
Published
24 April 2025
Imprint
Egoist Press
  • Flaubert
  • France
  • romance
  • feelings
  • sex
  • family
  • erotica
  • modernism
  • emotional health
  • mental health

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Description

Félicité serves, loves, loses, and keeps giving in a life nobody bothers to notice, until even a parrot becomes a kind of prayer. Flaubert’s quiet novella spoken as tenderness with an edge: the dignity of a heart that keeps working when the world looks away.

Author

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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