Salammbo (Classics)

Gustave Flaubert, A. Krailsheimer

ISBN 10: 0140443282 / ISBN 13: 9780140443288

Verlag: Penguin Classics 1977-04-28, 1977

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-GRD-9780140443288

Inhaltsangabe:

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. After illness interrupted a career in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote himself to writing. He achieved limited success in his own lifetime, but his fame and reputation grew steadily after his death in 1880.

Dr. A.J. Krailsheimer was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are Studies in Self-Interest (1963), Rabelais and the Franciscans (1965), Three Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century (1966),Rabelais (1967), A. J. de Rancé, Abbot of La Trappe (1974), Pascal (1980), Conversion (1980), Letters of A. J. de Rancé (1984), Rancé and the Trappist Legacy (1985) and Correspondance de Rancé (1993). He has also translated Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet and Salammbo and Pascal’s The Provincial Letters for the Penguin Classics.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Salammbo (Classics)
Verlag: Penguin Classics 1977-04-28
Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New