On a mountain in the Egyptian desert, the hermit Anthony is visited through a single night by the Queen of Sheba, the heresiarchs of early Christianity, the gods of every religion, the Sphinx and the Chimera, and Death and Lust themselves. Flaubert wrote it as a dramatic dialogue and worked on it for some thirty years before the definitive edition of 1874.
A strange, visionary book unlike anything else Flaubert wrote, here with Odilon Redon’s illustrations. Download the free EPUB.