THREE SHORT WORKS

by

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT


The Dance of Death
The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
A Simple Soul





THE DANCE OF DEATH

_(1838)_

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"Many words for few things!"
"Death ends all; judgment comes to all."

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[This work may be called a prose poem. It is impregnated with the
spirit of romanticism, which at the time of writing had a
temporary but powerful hold on the mind of Gustave Flaubert.]