A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls "a splendid period piece from one of America's premier translators of nineteenth-century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn's Latinate rendering, Flaubert's experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original."

• We started tracking this book on September 24, 2012.
• This book was $14.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 30 times in the past 4,225 days.
• The current price of this book is $4.99 last checked 12 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past year.
• The lowest price to date was $2.99 last reached on December 7, 2014.
• This book has been $2.99 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $14.99 last reached on September 24, 2012.
• This book has been $14.99 one time since we started tracking it.

• Religion & Spirituality
• Literature & FictionClassicsClassics
• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionBiographical
• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionSatire

• Publication Date: August 22, 2012
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 290 Pages
• File Size: 1,198 KB