Salammbo [also known as Salambo]

London: Saxon and Company, 1886.

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. First English edition (a different English translation was published by Vizetelly in the same year). Translated (here described as "Englished") by M. French Sheldon. Some scattered foxing to the text, a very near fine copy. An exotic novel of ancient Carthage that belongs in the second rank of the author's work behind *Madame Bovary*.

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Item #70595 Salammbo [also known as Salambo]. Gustave FLAUBERT.
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]
Salammbo [also known as Salambo]

Gustave Flaubert
birth name: Gustave Flaubert
born: 12/12/1821
died: 5/8/1880

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Novelist regarded as the foremost exponent of the realist school of French literature and best known for the work that is generally regarded as his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore