The Black Sheep
(La Rabouilleuse)
$38.11
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2005
Summary
This translation captures the radical modernity of Balzac’s style, while Adamson’s introduction places The Black Sheep in its context as one of the great novels of Balzac’s renowned Comedie Humaine.
Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon’s army. His younger…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442373 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442375 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Donald Adamson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2005 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Honoré de Balzac
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.
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