The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- First Published: 1874
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: Fourth century
- Setting: Egypt
- Principal Characters: Saint Anthony, Hilarion, The Devil, The Queen of Sheba, Tertullian, Montanus, Apollonius
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Sin or Original sin, Hermits, Christianity, Good and evil, Faith, Egypt or Egyptians, Hallucinations or illusions, Devils or demons, Middle Ages, Saints or sainthood, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Alexandria, Egypt
The Story:
Anthony had lived the life of a hermit for more than thirty years and now had come almost to the point of despair. He was extremely weary of life and with the world as he saw it from the limited point of view of his cell high in the mountains. At one time people had made pilgrimages to see him and be advised by him. These same people had furnished him with whatever money and clothing he needed; but everyone had stopped coming years before, and Anthony had begun to fear that his life was worthless. He then began to long for the money, women, and goods of this world...
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