Honore de Balzac

The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Five of Balzac's finest short stories are collected in this volume. The Unknown Masterpiece introduces three artists and their obsessive quest to create beautiful paintings which will enthrall the viewerand the madness that ensues. The Maranas follows two French soldiers stationed in a small Italian town, and the mysterious beauty they meet there. Also included are A Seashore Drama, The Red Inn, and Master Cornelius.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411458680
• Artikelnr.: 50389588

Autorenporträt

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the supreme French novelists. His monumental series of stories and novels, La Comedie humaine, was his masterworkdescribing life in France in the post-Napoleonic era. Regarded as a founding father of realism, his characters were drawn with a depth previously absent from literature.