Name: A Woman of Thirty
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Author: Honoré De Balzac
ISBN: 9781517035600

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Translated by

Ellen Marriage

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

180

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781517035600

Synopsis "A Woman of Thirty"

A Woman of Thirty Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) In this story heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon's reviews of his troops. It is after the debacle in Russia, but the Old Guard still knows how to put on a show. The lovely young girl is dazzled by Colonel Victor d'Aiglemont, a dashing young adjutant who gallops by. The father notices Julie's fascination and shakes his head anxiously, knowing that the young man is unworthy of her.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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