Honoré de Balzac

Cousin Pons (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sylvain Pons is a kind man and musician with two distinct passions: his art collection and his taste for gourmet dining. Other than his loyal friend and fellow musician Wilhelm Schmucke, the people in Pons' life generally disdain him. His cousins, the wealthy and vain M. and Mme. Camusot de Marville, dread his regular visits, but nevertheless entertain him with good food and polite conversation. When the value of his paintings is discovered, however, a scramble to win favor amongst Pons' family and acquaintances ensues, pushing his kindness and patience to their very limit. Cousin Pons is a classic of world literature and a story of greed as timely as it is familiar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273266
• Artikelnr.: 61312191

Autorenporträt

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac's realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine-he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process-led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac's most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.