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The Temptation of St. Antony By Gustave Flaubert

The Temptation of St. Antony

By Gustave Flaubert

  • Release Date: 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Classics
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony (French La Tentation de Saint Antoine) is a book which Gustave Flaubert spent practically his whole life fitfully working on, in three versions he completed in 1849, 1856 (extracts published at the same time) and 1872 before publishing the final version in 1874. It is written in the form of a play script. It details one night in the life of Anthony the Great where Anthony is faced with great temptations, and it was inspired by the painting, which he saw at the Balbi Palace in Genoa.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.