title: A  Simple Heart (The Art of the Novella)
author:  Gustave Flaubert 
description: "Small wonders"<br /><i>Time Out London</i><br /><br />"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."<br />Ron Rosenbaum, <i>The New York Observer</i>
zlib_text: Just Curious
  
  Ariella Talix
  
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  ISBN-13: 978-1-7320768-9-1  
    
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  Printed in the United States of America
  
  >  _“What is beautiful is moral. That is all there is to it.”_  
  >
  
  Gustave Flaubert
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Willa Camden squinted at the television. She was trying to figure out how she
  knew the woman giving her acceptance speech at the Oscars for Best Original
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