A Simple Heart

Gustave Flaubert

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

The whole humble, faithful life of a servant-woman, who pours her unregarded love at last upon a gaudy parrot, and dies seeing it as the Holy Ghost. Flaubert's tenderest masterpiece, one of his Three Tales.

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