Salammbo

If this season a woman's skirt is so scantily fashioned that as she hobbles along she has the appearance of being leg-shackled, like the lady called Salammbo, it is as sure as shooting that, come next season, she will have leapt to the other extreme and her draperies will be more than amply voluminous.

'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' Mary Roberts Rinehart 1910

"Salammbo," and two or three recent numbers of the

A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

On "Madame Bovary" he worked six years, and in writing "Salammbo," which took him no less time, he studied the scenery on the spot and exhausted the resources of the Imperial Library in his search for documentary evidences.

Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure 1914

Tolstoy's novels are good at one time and those of Sienkiewicz at another; and he is fortunate who can relish "Salammbo" and "Tom Brown" and the "Two Admirals" and "Quentin

Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Gibbon's Spartacus, by Gustav Flaubert's Salammbo, as well as by novels considered more commercial in objective, like Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire.

David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian. 2010

A cultivated esthete, Manookian was fascinated by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, a historical novel set in ancient Carthage.

John Seed: The Other Armenian: Arman Manookian's Short Life, and His Art 2010

I just looked up Salammbo on Wikipedia ... have you read it?

From the Author of "Salammbo" Walter Jon Williams 2007

An extraordinary achievement Durham puts flesh on the bones of Carthage in a way that no novelist has done since Flaubert wrote Salammbo.

The Pride of Carthage: Summary and book reviews of The Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham. 2005

I told him I'd stayed in Tunis to look at the site of ancient Carthage and collect background for a seminar on Flaubert's _Salammbo.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

Salammbo was borne back, nearly swooning, to her throne by the priests who flocked about her.

Salammbo 2003