A Woman of Thirty
$49.10
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodrama—the story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.
Beautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet thirty when she becomes infatuated with Victor d’Aiglemont, a handsome young aide-de-camp in Napoleon’s army. Nor is she yet thirty when she becomes Madame d’Aiglemont—and discovers she has made a great mistake in marrying a careless, insensitive boor. When Julie falls in love with the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230502 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Jeanine Herman |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850)
Honoré de Balzac, one of the greatest and most influential novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège Vendôme and the Sorbonne. Always working under an extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years. NYRB Classics publishes Balzac’s The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, The Girl with the Golden Eyes, The Lily in the Valley, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, and The Unknown Masterpiece.
Jeanine Herman
Jeanine Herman is a translator of French literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and art criticism. She has translated works by Julien Gracq, Pierre Clastres, Jean Genet, Francis Ponge, Julia Kristeva, among others. Her translation of Julien Gracq’s Reading Writing was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. She is a chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters.
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