Gustave Flaubert was one of the 19th century's most famous authors. A French novelist, Flaubert led the way for the Realism literary movement in that country at a time that it was sweeping across Europe and the United States, and works like "Madame Bovary" are still wildly popular today. Three short works consists of the stories; "A Simple Soul", "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller", and "A Dance of Death".