Salaambo is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, whose vivid plot bursts with exoticism, high drama, and bloody violence. Set in Carthage, during the 3rd-century BC immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt, which took place shortly after the First Punic War. It's a tale of war between, Rome and Carthage. Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammb and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho

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