Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Cousin Pons. Old Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac in twenty-five volumes: Cousin Pons. Old Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacCousin Pons. Old Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacCousin Pons / Old Goriot
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781434476067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Cousin Pons: Pons, a mild-mannered old man, is treated with spiteful contempt by his wealthy relations, who want to swindle him when they discover that his collection of art and antiques is worth a fortune.
La Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacHonore de Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes
Author: Honore De BalzacPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781345263305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
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Cousin Bette
Author: Honore De BalzacOld Goriot
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0679405356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Honoré de Balzac’s great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country, Eugène de Rastignac. Rastignac is appalled at first by the greed and corruption he finds in Paris, but he soon sets his sights on conquering high society. He joins forces with the array of schemers who surround him, while the suffering, self-sacrificing Goriot yearns in vain for his daughters’ love. The sprawling, vibrant, and turbulent Paris of the post-Napoleonic era is itself a major character in the novel, an emblem of the social upheaval that Balzac portrays so brilliantly. Old Goriot was the first of Balzac’s novels to employ his famous technique of recurring characters, and it has come to be seen as the keystone in his grand project, The Human Comedy. Translated by Ellen Marriage (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
The Best of Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Henry James's Europe
Author: Dennis TredyPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.