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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.

Flaubert G Simple Heart

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    A Paperback / softback by Gustave Flaubert, Roger Whitehouse

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 26 February 2015
      ISBN-13 9780141397504
      978-0141397504
      ISBN-10 0141397500
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Books by Gustave Flaubert

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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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