Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

Salammbo

Gustave Flaubert with P.J. Wright (Translator), G. Goodyear (Translator)

256 pages first pub 1862 (editions) user-added

fiction classics historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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In Salammbo Flaubert brings to life with vivid and luxuriant detail the period after the first Punic War, when Carthage was besieged by the unpaid mercenaries. Their leader Matho, a superb Libyan giant, loves Salammbo, the daughter of the Carthagi...

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