Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes

by Honore de Balzac and edited by Antoine Adam, preface by Maurice Menard

Book cover: Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes

Extent: 816 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Classiques Jaunes

Series volume number: 444

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2023)

ISBN: 9782812412332

7.24 x 4.53 inches

Price: $28.00

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Lucien de Rubempre continues his climb up the social ladder with guidance from Vautrin. Balzac’s virtuoso style structures the social fantasy within the framework of the most effective popular novel. But he goes beyond these codes by elevating Paris, the site of every passion and every crime, to the level of myth.

  • By (author) Honore de Balzac
  • Preface by Maurice Menard
  • Edited by Antoine Adam