The Human Comedy, Vol. II - The Purse and Modeste Mignon (Paperback)

. . . the chance meeting of a renowned painter and a mysterious girl blossoms into love, but when their ensuing courtship is marred by the disappearance of a purse full of money, their newfound happiness threatens to unravel . . . to the north of Paris in the port city of Le Havre, a drama of love and deception unfolds when the last and fiercely guarded daughter of a once prosperous family falls in love with the verses of a famous poet, but is this great man of letters with whom she enters into an impassioned correspondence really the person she believes him to be? . . . The theme of reality versus illusion, particularly in matters of love, dominates the two works of this second volume (The Purse and Modeste Mignon) of Balzac's magnum opus. Left unfinished at the time of the writer's death, La Comedie Humaine 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.

General

Imprint:	Noumena-Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Honore De Balzac
Translators:	Clara Bell
Editors:	R.J. Allinson
Dimensions:	201 x 125 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	363
ISBN-13:	978-0-9767062-2-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-9767062-2-9
Barcode:	9780976706229

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