' She decided she would teach him to speak & he was very soon able to say ' Pretty boy!' ' Your servant sir!' & ' Hail Mary!'' With pathos & humour Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Flaubert's works available in Penguin Classics are Madame Bovary Sentimental Education Three Tales & Salammbo