Lost Illusions
$30.73
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1976
Summary
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton’s reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442519 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442510 |
| Author: | Herbert Hunt, Honoré de Balzac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1976 |
| Weight: | 517g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Herbert Hunt
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850.
Herbert J. Hunt has been a Fellow at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Professor of French Language and Literature at London University, and Senior Fellow at Warwick University. He published books on literature and thought in nineteenth-century France, and was the author of a biography of Balzac. he died in 1973.
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