Ursule Mirouet
$24.31
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2015
Summary
A remarkably powerful yet simple tale of the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, which Balzac considered his ‘remarkable tour de force’.
In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as ‘a remarkable tour de force’.
An essentially simple tale about the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, Ursule Mirouet is characterized by tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141396705 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141396709 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Donald Adamson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 and worked in Paris as a lawyer’s clerk before becoming a writer. During his lifetime he wrote over ninety novels and short stories, many of which are considered masterpieces. He died in 1850, a few months after his marriage to Evelina Hanska, the Polish countess who had been his lover for eighteen years.
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