History of the Thirteen
$28.58
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 May 1978
Summary
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac’s History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of ‘The Thirteen’ remain frequently in the background, however, the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyed by suspicion, revelation and misun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140443011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140443010 |
| Author: | Honoré de Balzac, Herbert Hunt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 1978 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
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 unsuccessful 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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