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The Human Comedy, Vol. I - At the Sign of The Cat & Racket and Other Works (Noumena Classics) (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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The Human Comedy, Vol. I - At the Sign of The Cat & Racket and Other Works (Noumena Classics) (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: Human Comedy, 1
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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A painter 's greatest masterpiece is inspired by a young girl of
angelic beauty, but their resulting marriage only serves to reveal
the deep divide between their true natures . . . a haughty young
demoiselle, the last child to marry from an old noble family, is
raised to be all too discerning in her choice of a future husband,
with tragic consequences . . . a lifelong correspondence between
two young women illustrates their different ideas about love and
marriage one valuing romance and excitement, the other marital duty
but as they begin to live out their philosophies of love and life,
one thrives and prospers as a wife and mother while the other is
slowly consumed by jealousy . . . These three works (At the Sign of
the Cat and Racket, The Ball at Sceaux, and Letters of Two Brides)
form the first volume of Balzac 's monumental Com die Humaine. Left
unfinished at the time of the writer 's death, it is a vast
literary undertaking composed of some hundred short stories,
novellas, and novels set in the shadow of the Napoleonic Wars
during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. Throughout,
Balzac utilizes nineteenth century French society to examine
humanity and the human experience with all its attendant virtues,
vices, and peculiarities. The works in this volume are preceded by
an introduction in which the author sets forth the history of the
project and explains his principles of composition. Following the
authoritative French Pl iade edition in the ordering of the
stories, Noumena Press plans to release Balzac 's complete magnum
opus in a set of forty-five matching volumes, each one newly
annotated, edited, and with the original illustrations from the
Furne edition of 1842.
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