A Simple Heart: Gustave Flaubert

`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.

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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880). Flaubert`s works available in Penguin Classics are Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education, Three Tales and Salammbo.