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Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New Ed edition (10 Sep 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0192836684
ISBN-13: 978-0192836687
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
Average Customer Review: (2 customer reviews)
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This new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

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This new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

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Towards the middle of July in the year 1838, a vehicle of the kind known as a milord, which had recently appeared on the Paris streets, was going along the Rue de l'Universite. Read the first page

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An addictive, thought provoking read., 27 Jul 1999

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Balzac at his best. Through his writing you experience a rainbow of undesirable emotions and immoral passions with such insight that you feel tainted by your acquaintance with the characters through the book.Devastating/Funny/Sad/Insightful - anyone familiar and endeared to Balzac will easily be seduced by this book.

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most interesting characters with different passions, 10 Mar 2002

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This is an amazing book for those who are interested in daily life bothers of people with remarkable passions. The interesting figures of the novel:a husband who loves his caring and self-denying wife but cannot resist his passion towards a coldhearted beauty, a cousin who enjoys the pains of her "protecting" relatives and a number of other figures from different spheres of society with varying ambitions. You will enjoy this great book and learn more about not only human nature but also an eventful era in French history.

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