The Lily in the Valley - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Honor? de Balzac, Peter Bush (Translator), Geoffrey O'Brien (Introduction by)Publish date:2024-07-23Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681377988ISBN-10:1681377985UPC:9781681377988Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Historical, FantasyBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC5H29WPH1
The Lily in the Valley
A new translation of one of Balzac's finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess--a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover. A story of impossible and unsatisfied desire, Balzac's The Lily in the Valley opens with a scene of desire unleashed. F?lix de Vandenesse, the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681377988ISBN-10:1681377985UPC:9781681377988Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Historical, FantasyBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.10 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC5H29WPH1
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, 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, La Comédie humaine, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to offer a complete picture of contemporary society and manners. Always...
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