Gustave Flaubert The Temptation of St. Antony: Or, A Revelation of the Soul Volume

The Temptation of St. Antony, Vol. 7 Or, a Revelation of the Soul Some ten paces or so from the cell a tall cross is planted in the ground and, at the other end of the platform, a gnarled old palmtree leans over the abyss, for the side of the mountain is scarped and at the bottom of the cliff the Nile swells, as it were, into a lake. | Gustave Flaubert The Temptation of St. Antony: Or, A Revelation of the Soul Volume