Balzac, Honore de
by Lost Illusions
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0140442510
- ISBN 13
- 9780140442519
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About This Item
New York. 1988. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Margin Notes and Underling/Highlighting Throughout the Book, Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers With Crease Markings on the Spine. 0140442510. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Herbert J. Hunt. 682 pages. paperback. The cover shows a portrait of the painter P. Guerin by R. Lefevre. keywords: Literature France 19th Century Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Lucien Chardon, like all love children, had inherited his mother's beauty and little else, a present which so often proves fatal when it goes with poverty.' Balzac's hero in LOST ILLUSIONS is a young provincial would-be poet, whose feminine grace belies his driving ambition. He is naïve, inexperienced and weak, but has genuine talent. Taken up by Madame de Bargeton, Lucien prepares to forge his way in the beau monde of Paris, a fickle and captivating society in which he rapidly discovers that simple confidence in his own desires is not enough - he has a lot to learn about other people. LOST ILLUSIONS (1837 - 43) is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of The Human Comedy. It reveals Balzac, bored by provincial life but equally satirical about Parisian society, torn between admiration and contempt for his central characters and altogether at his most engaging and ambivalent. inventory #25056 ISBN: 0140442510.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25056
- Title
- Balzac, Honore de
- Author
- Lost Illusions
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140442510
- ISBN 13
- 9780140442519
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- October 28, 1976
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