The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman (Translator), Robert Alter (Introduction by)Publish date:2025-07-01Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379067ISBN-10:1681379066UPC:9781681379067Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Classics, RomanceBook Topic:France, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC8CG30Z3J
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
In this influential novella, regarded as one of Balzac's greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman-a crazed and annihilating conflict that plays out in the most darkly decadent corners of Parisian high society. A handsome, brilliant, consummate hedonist, Henri de Marsay believes in neither man nor woman, neither God nor the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681379067ISBN-10:1681379066UPC:9781681379067Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Classics, RomanceBook Topic:France, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.10 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SC8CG30Z3J
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège Vendôme and the Sorbonne. He began his career as a pseudonymous writer of sensational potboilers before achieving success with a historical novel, The Chouans. Balzac then conceived his great work, The Human Comedy, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Honoré de Balzac, Carol Cosman (Translator), Robert Alter (Introduction by)
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