Shipping Estimate
USA
- USA
- CAN
- USA
- CAN
Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Jul 10 - Jul 15
Promo Codes Available:
For Your Every Summer RSVP, with Code: SUMMER15
Description
A Simple HeartIn A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' Flaubert s Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's "great saint" endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. This
In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes' Flaubert s Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's "great saint" endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. This novella showcases Flaubert's perfectly honed realism: a delicate counterpoint of daily events with their psychological repercussions. "Flaubert is diagnosis," Ezra Pound wrote, "the whole of Flaubert, the whole fight for the novel as 'histoire morale contemporaine' was a fight against maxims, against abstractions, a fight back toward a human and/or total conception."Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 04/01/1996
ISBN: 9780811213189
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 7.06h x 4.78w x 0.22d
Review Citations: Library Journal 02/15/1996 pg. 180
Shipping Notes
- Free Standard Shipping on $100+ Orders to the USA.
- Except Preorder products are shipped in 48 hours.
- Delivery to the USA:
- Standard Shipping : 3-10 business days
- If time is of the essence, please consider selecting expedited delivery for faster service.
Exchange/Return Notes
- We offer a 30-day return/exchange service after receiving.
- Final sale items are not eligible for returns or exchanges.
- To process your return/exchange, please contact us at [email protected]
- Please click here for more details>>> Return & Exchange Policy
4.5 ★★★★★
Based on 97 reviews
Sort
Product Reviews
★★★★★ 1
Shark activity book.
Format: Paperback
Great activity book. Grandkids loved it!
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Farts & Giggles!
Format: Paperback
This is such a cute & hilarious book! Got it for a kids valentine’s day basket & we had a blast reading it. The storyline is cute, the illustrations are adorable & it gave everyone a laugh. Super easy & fun for a 7yr old boy to read (:
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Too funny!!
Format: Paperback
My husband, myself, and our 4 yr old son laughed the whole way through this book. I will be buying this book for my friends and their kids! Great book; super cute and funny. I am looking forward to purchasing the other books by this author.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2026
★★★★★ 5
10/10!!!
Format: Paperback
My kids (our whole family really) absolutely love love love this book. I ordered it for them for Valentine's Day and they have asked me to read it to them soooo many times. It never fails to make us laugh. I just ordered them two more from the tooting series (lol) for their Easter baskets. Farts are funny!!
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Extremely funny book!!
Format: Paperback
My granddaughter loved this book and called me laughing about it. She just turned 4 and my daughter said it was age appropriate.
WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL?YesReportShare
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2026