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Author Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author

Title Lost illusions Honoré de Balzac ; translated and with an introduction by Raymond N. MacKenzie
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
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Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Lost Illusions -- 1. The Two Poets -- 2. The Parisian Adventures of a Great Man from the Provinces -- 3. The Ordeals of an Inventor -- INTRODUCTION: THE SORROWFUL CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY -- PART I. THE HISTORY OF A LEGAL CASE -- PART II. THE FATAL MEMBER OF THE FAMILY -- Translator's Notes
Summary "In Lost Souls, Honore de Balzac's brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Manners and customs
SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject France
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
Author MacKenzie, Raymond N., translator
ISBN 9781452963099
1452963096
9781452963105
145296310X
Other Titles Illusions perdues. English