. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . iAW V\* CONTENTS THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTONY Chapter I. paoe a holy saint i Chapter II. THE temptation OF r,OVE AND POWER . 16 Chapter III. THE DISCIPLE, HILARION 40 Chapter IV. THE fiery trial 48 Chapter V. ALL GODS, ALL RELIGIONS 99 Chapter VI. THE MYSTERY OF SPACE 143 Chapter VII. THE CHIMERA AND THE SPHINX . . I5I OVER STRAND AND FIELDChapter I. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORO 3 Chapter II. chAteau de clisson 12 (vfi) viii CONTENTS Chapter HI. •*°« CARNAC • 25 Chapter IV. QUIBERON 36 Chapte
. The complete works of Gustave Flaubert; embracing romances, travels, comedies, sketches and correspondence; . iAW V\* CONTENTS THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTONY Chapter I. paoe a holy saint i Chapter II. THE temptation OF r,OVE AND POWER . 16 Chapter III. THE DISCIPLE, HILARION 40 Chapter IV. THE fiery trial 48 Chapter V. ALL GODS, ALL RELIGIONS 99 Chapter VI. THE MYSTERY OF SPACE 143 Chapter VII. THE CHIMERA AND THE SPHINX . . I5I OVER STRAND AND FIELDChapter I. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORO 3 Chapter II. chAteau de clisson 12 (vfi) viii CONTENTS Chapter HI. •*°« CARNAC • 25 Chapter IV. QUIBERON 36 Chapter V. RETURN 50 Chapter VI. CipiMPER 53 Chapter VH. pont-labbe 6> Chapter VIII. roaming 70 Chapter IX. BREST 87 Chapter X. SAINT-MALO . 97 Chapter XI. MONT SAINT-MICHEL Ill Chapter XII. COMBOURO 118 ILLUSTRATIONS TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTONY FACIMOPAGS DO NOT RESIST, I AM OMNIPOTENT! (See page 157) Frontispiece HE LETS GO THE TORCH IN ORDER TO EMBRACE THE HEAP 26 OVER STRAND AND FIELD MONT SAINT-MICHEL IIS THE Temptation of Saint Antony. CHAPTER Holy Saint. T IS in the Thebald, on the heightsof a mountain, where a platform,shaped like a crescent, is sur-rounded by huge Hermits cell occupies thebackground. It is built of mud andreeds, flat-roofed and doorless. Inside are seen apitcher and a loa^ of black bread; in the centre, ona wooden support, a large book; on the ground,here and there, bits of rush-work, a mat or two, abasket and a knife. Some ten paces or so from the cell a tall crossis planted in the ground; and, at the other endof the platform, a gnarled old palm-tree leans overthe abyss, for the side of the mountain is scarped;and at the bottom of the cliff the Nile swells, as itwere, into a lake. («) 2 GUSTAVE FLAUBERT To right and left, the view is bounded by the eivclosing rocks; but, on the side of the desert, immenseundulations of a yellowish ash-colour rise, one aboveand one beyond the other, like the lines of a sea-coast; while, far off, beyon
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