{"product_id":"2026200016155-secondhand-three-tales","title":"Three Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustave Flaubert's Three Tales stands as a masterwork of nineteenth-century French literature, presenting three luminous novellas — A Simple Heart, The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator, and Herodias — that together chronicle the full spectrum of human devotion, sacrifice, and spiritual yearning. In the first, a humble, illiterate servant named Félicité lives a life of quiet, selfless love that ultimately transcends the mundane; in the second, a medieval nobleman's violent destiny is foretold and fulfilled with the inevitability of myth; and in the third, the biblical story of Salome and John the Baptist is reimagined with dazzling political and sensory intensity.\n\nWritten in 1877 and widely regarded as Flaubert's final published triumph, Three Tales showcases the author's extraordinary stylistic range — from tender realism to medieval legend to opulent orientalism — all rendered in prose of lapidary precision. The collection illustrates Flaubert's signature obsession with the mot juste, the perfectly chosen word, while probing themes of faith, mortality, guilt, and redemption that resonate far beyond their historical settings. A cornerstone of the Western literary canon, it remains an essential and profoundly moving reading experience that confirms Flaubert's place among the immortals of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342776541403,"sku":"2026200016155-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b51ed15e-1480-4571-8383-58b69d70f6bc.png?v=1790049212","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016155-secondhand-three-tales","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}