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A Harlot High and Low

Honoré de Balzac Rayner Heppenstall

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French
Penguin Classics
01 March 1971
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New impression
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   383g
ISBN:   9780140442328
ISBN 10:   0140442324
Pages:   560
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful 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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