Honoré de Balzac

Lost Illusions (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An epic novel of ambition and betrayal, Lost Illusions is the story of Lucien Chardon, a talented and restless poet from the town of Angoulême who longs for literary success and a life in Paris. As he struggles to overcome the obstacles of poverty and a lack of social standing, Lucien is forced to make decisions which not only threaten the livelihoods of those closest to him, but gradually erode his sense of reality itself. Lost Illusions is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest works, containing some of his best and most ambiguous characters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781513273303
• Artikelnr.: 61321538

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.