Lost Illusions
by George Stade (Consultant Editor)Marie-Rose Logan (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)Honore de BalzacKatharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)
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Among the best known of Balzac¿s novels, Lost Illusions chronicles the rise and fall of Lucien Chardon, a vain but naive young poet who leaves his provincial home to seek success and fortune in Parisian society. Paralleling Lucien¿s disastrously ambitious journey is the story of his friend and brother-in-law, hard-working inventor David Séchard, who is beset by unscrupulous competitors and cheated in his printing business by his own father.
Considered the founder of French realism, Balzac painted equally faithful pictures of the glittering but superficial world of society and the lonely struggle of impoverished men of genius. The city has a corrosive effect on Lucien¿s artistic talent and moral strength, while David takes a brave stand against the constraints of provincial small-mindedness. Balzac plays out their contrasting but intertwined stories against the enduring themes of love, ambition, greed, loyalty, vanity, and betrayal. Will Lucien¿s debts be the ruin of both?
Published between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions is part of La Comédie Humaine, into which Balzac grouped more than ninety interlocking novels. In Lost Illusions, scores of minor characters from these other works help bring early-nineteenth-century France to brilliant life.
| ISBN-13 | 9781593083151 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1593083157 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.19 x 1.72 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $11.95 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 688 pages |
| Publisher | Sterling Publishing |
| Published On | 2007-04-01 |
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