The Temptation of St. Anthony

INTRODUCTION

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 ind...