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Herodias

Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
1 hour 21 minutes
ISBN
9781802565539
Published
24 April 2025
Imprint
Egoist Press
  • biblical
  • revenge
  • power
  • corruption
  • Salome
  • John the Baptist
  • Roman Judea
  • ambition
  • prophecy
  • tragedy

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Description

At Herod Antipas’s court, politics, desire, and a prophet’s voice collide until Salome’s dance and John the Baptist’s death seal the night. Flaubert’s Herodias is heat and calculation in a crowded room. Spoken as biblical drama felt close to the skin, not a sermon.

Author

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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