Gustave Flaubert

Salammbo illustrated Gustave Flaubert

The best-selling official for Novel that everyone is looking for. Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published on November 24, 1862 by Michel Lévy frères. Its subject is the War of the Mercenaries, 3rd century BC. AD, who opposed the city of Carthage to the barbaric mercenaries it had employed during the First Punic War, and who revolted, furious at not having received the agreed pay. Flaubert sought to respect known history, but took advantage of the little information available to describe an Orient with sensual and violent exoticism. Like his work, the research and development work deployed for the writing of Salammbô is considerable. Indeed, in April 1858, Flaubert went to Tunisia in order to see Carthage, to get information there, and to allow him to accurately convey his feelings about the places where his story takes place.you can read it more...