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On a coach ride between towns, a callow young man gets caught up in
a round of tale-telling with his fellow passengers and ends up
committing an indiscretion that will take a lifetime to undo . . .
In the town of Besancon, a cloistered young girl reads a romance
penned by a mysterious newcomer and schemes to take the place of
the story's real-life inspiration: a beautiful Italian duchess . .
. Two lovers stand in defiance of the age-old feud that has
decimated their families: a vendetta that even Napoleon Bonaparte
himself may be powerless to stop . . . Beginning again in life,
whether in one's profession, or, to a lesser extent, for the
purpose of concealing one's identity, is the theme that unifies the
three stories (A Start in Life, Albert Savarus, and The Vendetta)
in this volume of The Human Comedy. Left unfinished at the time of
Balzac'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. The third
volume of Noumena Press's Human Comedy features detailed background
information on each of the stories, 27 illustrations, more than 60
pages of annotations, and two appendices that contain "Journey by
Coucou" by Laure Surville (Balzac's sister) and "Mateo Falcone" by
Prosper Merimee--stories that were the inspiration for Balzac's A
Start in Life and The Vendetta, respectively. "Journey by Coucou"
appears in English translation here for the first time. Honore de
Balzac (1799-1850) was one of France's most prolific and
influential authors. In his lifetime, he worked as a legal clerk,
publisher, printer, businessman, and even ran for political office.
Failing in all these endeavors, he was nonetheless able to make use
of these experiences in his writing to create some of the most
memorable stories and characters in French literature.
. . . 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.
The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite
Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. The battle
for her affection leads Wilf and Minna past earthly knowledge and
into the deeper mysteries of life. Set against the rugged landscape
of 18th century Norway, Seraphita is the most unusual and bizarre
novel in Balzac's Comedie Humaine.
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Colonel Chabert (Paperback)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Ellen Marriage, Clara Bell
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Honoră© De Balzac, Clara Bell
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