Greetings everyone

[spendius]

I'm spendius.
That should help Flaubert fanatics to beam in.
I love literature mainly because it's fascinating and can be done on a comfy couch at very low cost.I'm English so I started on Dandy and Beano whilst in short pants moved onto Wizard and Rider Haggard and then ran smack into Frank Harris and I've been a sucker for good books ever since.
My current wade is Isis Unveiled which seems quite mad at times and sublime at others.

I think there is some deep mystery at the bottom of the best literature.

I'm a Bob Dylan zealot.

[Logos]

Welcome to the forums spendius :)

Poor old Haggard has gone undeservedly obscure as far as I'm concerned.

About Salammbô Flaubert wrote:

"Do you know the sum total of my ambition? It's to have an intelligent, well-read man shut himself up with my book for four hours and to give him an orgy of historical [drug experience]. That's all I want." --GF, Jan 1860 [ht173]

[spendius]

Thanks Logos,

I never saw that quote before.Is it in Letters.

But ain't Salammbo wonderful.4 hours can't do it justice.

[Darlin]

Hi, spendius and welcome to the forum. Sadly I have never heard of any of the author's you've mentioned save Flaubert but that's one of the things I really like about this forum, it opens me up to author's I would never have heard of possibly and certainly never have thought about reading. Oh and btw, it's great to see you posting already! :)

[Logos]

I got that quote --> here <-- (http://www.robotwisdom.com/flaubert/salammbo/)

"Jan 1860" suggest that possibly it was from some correspondence of his, to whom, I don't know sorry. Maybe George Sand?

[subterranean]

Is the Flaubert refers to the Gustave Flaubert who write Madam Bovary?


Well anways, welcome on board :wave:

[spendius]

Darlin-

It sounds like you have a treat in store.

Try these-Salammbo by Flaubert and King Solomon's Mines,She and Ayesha by Sir Henry Rider Haggard.

Salammbo is on the net somewhere but it is best in hardback.