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Three Tales by Gustave. Flaubert and A. J. Krailsheimer (1999, Uk-Trade Paper)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100192836315
ISBN-139780192836311
eBay Product ID (ePID)71321
Product Key Features
Book TitleThree Tales
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicClassics, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorGustave. Flaubert, A. J. Krailsheimer
Book SeriesOxford World's Classics Ser.
FormatUk-Trade Paper
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight3.9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Reviews''Intensely brilliant prose from the acclaimed author of Madame Bovary. These classic tales reflect Flaubert's talent as a witty narrator and in particular A Simple Heart presents a wonderfully evocative portrait of 19th Century France.''Wales on Sunday, ''A. J. Krailsheimer's new translation adheres more faithfully toFlaubert's idiosyncratic sentence structures...authentically captures theoriginal's elliptical nature, with its ghostly authorial voice.''Sunday Telegraph, ''Intensely brilliant prose from the acclaimed author of Madame Bovary.These classic tales reflect Flaubert's talent as a witty narrator and inparticular A Simple Heart presents a wonderfully evocative portrait of 19thCentury France.''Wales on Sunday, ''A. J. Krailsheimer's new translation adheres more faithfully to Flaubert's idiosyncratic sentence structures...authentically captures the original's elliptical nature, with its ghostly authorial voice.''Sunday Telegraph
Dewey Decimal843.8
SynopsisAcclaimed by Italo Calvino as "one of the most extraordinary spirtual journeys ever accomplished outside any religion," Three Tales (1877) was the last of Flaubert's works published during his lifetime. The ambitious range of the stories -- "A Simple Heart," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," and "Herodias" -- reaches from the author's own century back to the Middle Ages and to ancient Israel. "A Simple Heart," in Flaubert's own words, "is just the account of an obscure life, that of Felicite a poor country girl, pious but mystical, quietly devoted, and as tender as fresh bread... I want to arouse people's pity, to make sensitive souls weep, since I am one myself." The middle story, "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller," tells of a bloodthirsty hunter and warrior whose attempts to escape a dire prophecy ultimately lead to a state of grace. "Herodias," the final tale, is based on the legends surrounding King Herod, Salome, and John the Baptist. It served as the inspiration for later interpretations, including Oscar Wilde's Salome and Jules Massenet's opera Herodiade. "To any modern writer, in whatever language," remarked Anthony Burgess of Three Tales, "these are recommended as a fundamental textbook of style." Book jacket., Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the Baptist for their inspiration. Each of the tales invites comparison with one or other of Flaubert's novels, but they also reveal a fresh and distinctive side to the writers's genius., This collection of three tales, "A Simple Heart," "Saint Julian," and "Herodias" offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. In settings as familiar to the author as Normandy or as distant as biblical Palestine, these three stories reveal a writer skilled in narrative concentration and intensity of focus., This text offers an introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest novelists. A Simple Heart is set in the Normandy of Flaubert's childhood, while Saint Julian and Herodias draw on medieval myth and the biblical story of John the Baptist for their inspiration. Each of the tales invites comparison with one or other of Flaubert's novels, but they also reveal a fresh and distinctive side to the writers's genius.
LC Classification NumberPQ2469.Z5
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