A Harlot High and Low: (Splendeurs Et Miseres Des Courtisanes) (Classics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Harlot High and Low: (Splendeurs Et Miseres Des Courtisanes) (Classics) Book

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.Read More

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  • Penguin

    Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which introduces the satanic genius Vautrin, one of the greatest villains in world literature.

  • Pickabook

    Honore de Balzac, Rayner Heppenstall (Trans)

  • 0140442324
  • 9780140442328
  • Honore Balzac
  • 26 September 1985
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
  • New impression
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