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Lost illusions

Lost illusions

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850, author.
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This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempré, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenth-century Paris.

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France Social life and customs 19th century Fiction
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ISBN:
9781517905439
Description:
xxvi, 585 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Translator's introduction
The two poets
The Parisian adventures of a great man from the provinces
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
Control Number:
3107338
Other Authors:
MacKenzie, Raymond N., translator
translation of: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850. Illusions perdues. English
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