A Simple Soul

Gustave Flaubert

Part I Chapter One We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a "new fellow," not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

Gustave Flaubert

CHAPTER I THE FEAST It was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.

Gustave Flaubert

THEN SHE SEIZED HIM BY THE EARS AND KISSED HIM SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION CHAPTER I. A Promising Pupil.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.