| A Simple Heart Contributor(s): Flaubert, Gustave (Author), Mandell, Charlotte (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0974607886 ISBN-13: 9780974607887 Publisher: Melville House Publishing OUR PRICE: $9.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: Vivid realism captures the attitudes of Felicite the housemaid and her life of domestic servitude in this deceptively simple tale. This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of masterful writers. Inexpensive and collectible, they are the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this underappreciated literary form and providing a fresh take on the world's most celebrated authors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004023796 |
| Series: Art of the Novella |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 4.94" W x 7" (0.19 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work was meant to be a tribute to George Sand--who died before it was finished--and was written in answer to an argument the two were having over the importance of realism. Although the tale displays his virtuosic gift for telling detail, and is based on one of his actual servants, Flaubert said it exemplified his belief that "Beauty is the object of all my efforts." This sparkling new translation by Charlotte Mandell shows how impeccably Flaubert achieved his goal. |