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Gustave Flaubert was an influential novelist who had both the characteristics of a romanticist and a realist. The short stories in this collection put that dichotomy on display.
Flaubert wrote the first story, âThe Dance of Deathâ when he was only 17 years old. It is written in a play formatâthough sometimes referred to as a prose poemâand features a conversation between Death, Satan and Nero. âThe Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitallerâ is a story about Julian the Hospitaller, a man who shares some similarities with Oedipus; âA Simple Soulâ tells the story of a servant girl named FelicitĂŠ; and lastly âHerodiasâ retells the beheading of St. John the Baptist.