Gustave Flaubert
2) Salammbo
3) Three Tales
4) Trois contes
10) Herodias
Flaubert's retelling of the beheading of John the Baptist. Herodias holds a large birthday party for her second husband, Herod Antipas. Unknown to him, she has concocted a plan to behead John, who is in their captivity. She entices her teenage daughter Salome to ask for John's head - she knows her husband is in love with his stepdaughter and can't refuse her anything.
12) Madame Bovary
13) Salammb
16) Madame Bovary
17) November
18) Salambo
19) Salammbô
Salammbô est un roman historique de Gustave Flaubert, paru en 1862 chez Michel Lévy.
Il prend pour sujet la Guerre des Mercenaires, iiie siècle av. J.-C., qui opposa la ville de Carthage avec les Mercenaires barbares qu’elle avait employés pendant la première Guerre punique, et qui se révoltèrent, furieux de ne pas avoir reçu la solde convenue. Flaubert chercha à respecter l’Histoire connue, mais profita du peu d’informations
20) Salammbô
An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. This book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. The Carthaginian costumes described therein even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it
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