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Scenes From A Courtesan's Life

Scenes From A Courtesan's Life

De Balzac, Honore

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1419146300
ISBN13: 9781419146305
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Jun 17 2004
Pages: 540
Weight: 2.04
Height: 1.15 Width: 7.52 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is a novel by the French author Honor����� de Balzac. It is part of a larger series of novels known as La Com�����die Humaine, which explores French society during the 19th century. The novel follows the life of Esther van Gobseck, a former prostitute who has become a high-class courtesan in Paris. Esther's story is intertwined with those of other characters in the novel, including the wealthy banker Nucingen and the ambitious journalist Lucien de Rubempr�����. Through their interactions, Balzac explores themes of love, money, power, and social status. The novel is known for its vivid descriptions of Parisian society and its complex characters, as well as for its critique of the French aristocracy and the corrupting influence of wealth. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is considered one of Balzac's masterpieces and a classic of French literature.In 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a youth who was wandering about the passages and greenroom with the air of a man in search of a woman kept at home by unexpected circumstances. The secret of this behavior, now dilatory and again hurried, is known only to old women and to certain experienced loungers.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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