Trois Contes Un cœur simple, La Légende de saint Julien l’Hospitalier et Hérodias

More than a collection of novellas, Un cœur simple, La Légende de saint Julien L’Hospitalier, and Hérodias form a veritable triptych with overtones of modern legend. Flaubert’s eloquence is sanguine and bountiful in these works as he develops a world of passions, eroticism, and violence through the centuries.