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Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)

Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)

De Balzac, Honore
Prescott Wormeley, Katharine

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ISBN10: 1595690530
ISBN13: 9781595690531
Publisher: Mondial
Published: Aug 25 2006
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Ursula (original French title Ursule Mirouet, 1842) forms one part of Scenes from Provincial Life, a series of novels-whose other major work is Eugenie Grandet-examining manners and morals in the French provinces. --- Among all the novels of Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), none depicts so penetratingly the small-mindedness, avarice, and envy of the provincial lower middle classes. In Ursula, no limitations based on morality or decency will hold these people back in their effort to acquire wealth and influence. --- Along with Stendhal, Balzac is the most important French novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century, and a founder of the realistic novel in Europe. His principal work is the unfinished cycle The Human Comedy (French: La Comedie Humaine, which includes Scenes from Provincial Life), in which he attempted, in more than 80 volumes, to depict the society of his time in its entirety.

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