A Simple Soul Contributor(s): Flaubert, Gustave (Author) |
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ISBN: 6057876334 ISBN-13: 9786057876331 Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1877 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.15" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.18 lbs) 62 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faithful to her mistress--although the latter was by no means an agreeable person. Madame Aubain had married a comely youth without any money, who died in the beginning of 1809, leaving her with two young children and a number of debts. She sold all her property excepting the farm of Toucques and the farm of Geffosses, the income of which barely amounted to 5,000 francs; then she left her house in Saint-Melaine, and moved into a less pretentious one which had belonged to her ancestors and stood back of the market-place. This house, with its slate-covered roof, was built between a passage-way and a narrow street that led to the river. The interior was so unevenly graded that it caused people to stumble. A narrow hall separated the kitchen from the parlour, where Madame Aubain sat all day in a straw armchair near the window. Eight mahogany chairs stood in a row against the white wainscoting. An old piano, standing beneath a barometer, was covered with a pyramid of old books and boxes. On either side of the yellow marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flaubert, Gustave: - "Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for "le mot juste" ("the precise word"). Other Books of Flaubert: -Madame Bovary (1857) -Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881) -Salammbô (1862)" |