It was at some period between 1875 and 1876 that Lafcadio Hearn—still a \"cub\" reporter on a daily paper in Cincinnati—began his translation of Flaubert\'s \"Temptation of St. Anthony.\" The definitive edition of the work, over which the author had laboured for thirty years, had appeared in 1874. Hearn was, in his early youth, singularly indifferent to the work of the Englishmen of the Victorian period. Though he knew the English masterpieces of that epoch, their large, unacademic freedom of manner awakened no echoes in his spirit. His instinctive taste was for the exquisite in style: for \"that peculiar kneading, heightening, and recasting\" which Matthew Arnold thought necessary for perfection.This authorised edition published in 1895. Translated from the French with an introduction by D. F Hannigan, LL.B. Illustrated with nine original designs after S. Gorski. Hand-cut pages. Some foxing and slightly faded spine. Book has plastic protective cover.