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Balzac, Honore de; Crawford, M. A. (Marion Ayton) (Translated by)
Cousin Bette: Part One of Poor Relations
Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1965 0140441603 / 9780140441604 Reprint Mass Market Paperback Good
443 pp.; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy. / The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years." - Publisher.
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Balzac, Honore de; Crawford, M. A. (Marion Ayton) (Translated by)
Eugenie Grandet
Harmondsworth Penguin Books; Penguin Classics 1955 014044050X / 9780140440508 16th printing Trade Paperback Very Good
247 pp.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "The love of money and the passionate pursuit of it, a major theme in The Human Comedy, is brilliantly depicted in the story of Grandet and his obsession with achieving power. / / The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years." - Publisher.
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