History of the Thirteen (The Human Comedy) - Softcover

Balzac, Honore De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140443010 ISBN 13: 9780140443011

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1975

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Reseña del editor:

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, however, the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyed by suspicion, revelation and misunderstanding. The Duchess de Langeais explores the anguish that results when a society coquette tries to seduce a heroic ex-soldier, while The Girl with the Golden Eyes offers a frank consideration of desire and sexuality. Together, these works provide a firm and fascinating foundation for Balzac's many later portrayals of Parisian life in his great novel-cycle The Human Comedy.

Biografía del autor:

Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0140443010
• ISBN 13: 9780140443011
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Hunt Herbert J.