A youthful romantic prose poem in which Death speaks, written when Flaubert was sixteen, opens the volume. It is followed by two of his mature masterpieces: the medieval legend of Julian, the hunter cursed to kill his parents who seeks atonement by serving a leper, and the life of Félicité, a Norman servant whose devotion settles at last on a parrot named Loulou.
A short way into Flaubert at his most concentrated and his most tender. Download the free EPUB.