Honore de BalzacBiblio.com
Honore de BalzacBiblio.com
Lost Illusions
20209781513268309-2025Mint Editions 2020. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Honoré de Balzac Mint Editions</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Mint Editions</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781513268309</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2020</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 570</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> Lost Illusions 1837-1843 is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence Lost Illusions looks at scenes of Parisian and provincial life involving friendship desire and literary ambition. Inspired by his own experiences as a journalist and publisher Balzac sought to tell a story adjacent to his own a story concerning a young man for whom talent is abundant but recognition is woefully scarce. The novel’s protagonist Lucien Chardon features in Balzac’s work A Harlot High and Low as does the villain Vautrin who appears toward the end of Lost Illusions and throughout Father Goriot one of author’s most popular and enduring works.The son of a middle-class father and aristocratic mother Lucien Chardon is a promising young poet. He lives in Angoulême with his now-impoverished mother―who is also a widow―and his sister Ève. In the province he spends his days with his loyal friend David Séchard who encourages his literary lifestyle while studying to be a scientist. David’s eventual marriage to Ève only brings the two friends closer together but when Lucien meets the wealthy and influential Mme. de Bargeton with whom he flees to Paris their friendship is lost to Lucien’s unstoppable ambition. In the city abandoned by Mme. de Bargeton and living under his mother’s maiden name Lucien de Rubempré sacrifices morality friendship and family at the altar of poetry slowly becoming another person altogether. Lost Illusions is one of Balzac’s most sustained character studies a novel which critiques humanity and high society as much as it does his own commercial interests as a professional writer.This edition of Honoré de Balzac’s Lost Illusions is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers.Since our inception in 2020 Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.With thousands of titles in our collection we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.</p> Mint Editions hardcover
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