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    Three Tales
    Three Tales
    Three Tales
    Audiobook4 hours

    Three Tales

    Written by Gustave Flaubert

    Narrated by Andrew Wincott

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    • Family

    • Nature

    • Religion

    • Religion & Spirituality

    • Love

    • Prodigal Son

    • Political Intrigue

    • Loyal Servant

    • Forbidden Love

    • Power of Love

    • Star-Crossed Lovers

    • Wise Old Man

    • Revenge Plot

    • Power of Faith

    • Hero's Journey

    • Rural Life

    About this audiobook

    Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In ‘A Simple Heart’ (the inspiration for Julian Barnes’s novel Flaubert’s Parrot), a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones. ‘The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller’, based on a stained-glass window in Rouen Cathedral, presents the origin story of Julian the Hospitaller, who renounces the violence of his past and cares for the indigent. ‘Herodias’, the final story, retells the beheading of St John the Baptist, and the seduction of Herod by Salome. Elegant and bracing, Three Tales is a rich, stylistic showcase from the writer best known for the perennial favourite Madame Bovary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMar 30, 2018
    ISBN9781781984048
    Author

    Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert está considerado como el introductor del realismo francés del siglo XIX. Su obsesión por el estilo, por la búsqueda del mot juste (la palabra justa), hizo que sus obras, consideradas como escandalosas por la sociedad de su tiempo, lograran un reconocimiento unánime por parte de la crítica y de sus compañeros de letras. Tímido hasta lo patológico y en ocasiones arrogante, Flaubert no se granjeó demasiadas amistades a lo largo de su vida. Su carácter, que podríamos calificar de inestable, le llevó a padecer crisis nerviosas que derivaron en una salud frágil. Flaubert, prematuramente anciano, murió de una apoplejía a los 58 años. Contemporáneo del otro gran genio de la literatura francesa, Charles Baudelaire, Flaubert nos lega una obra deslumbrante que arranca con Madame Bovary (1857), sigue con Salambó (1862), La educación sentimental (1869), La tentación de San Antonio (1874), Tres cuentos (1877) y se cierra, póstumamente, con Bouvard y Pécuchet (1881).

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    • 4/5
      Loved the first story the best, about a simple, kind, solitary servant and her pet parrot. The next one is a bloody, gruesome fairy tale, and the third an elaborated version of a Biblical story.