Herodias
About this book
Herodias is Gustave Flaubert's retelling of the biblical episode surrounding the execution of John the Baptist at the court of Herod Antipas, first published as part of his collection Three Tales. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and historical fiction drawn from antiquity.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
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