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BALZAC
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| By: |
V. S. Pritchett |
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Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099429578 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099429579 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
2 May, 2002 |
| Series: |
Vintage Lives |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Balzac was one of the founding geniuses among the world's great novelists. The author presents a life-size portrait of the man inside the artist, the exuberant, uncouth provincial who combined encyclopaedic knowledge with the life of an exhibitionist and a would-be dandy, a gourmet, and a successful pursuer of aristocratic women. |
| Synopsis: |
Balzac was one of the founding geniuses among the world's great novelists. V. S. Pritchett presents a life-size portrait of the man inside the artist, the exuberant, uncouth provincial who combined encyclopaedic knowledge with the life of an exhibitionist and a would-be dandy, a gourmet, a disastrous financial speculator, a successful pursuer of aristocratic women, a born salesman and an untiring traveller. Yet, with some truth, Balzac called himself a monk, working his sixteen hours a day and keeping going on an ocean of strong coffee. When he died, he left the huge monument of the Com-die Humaine, an unsurpassed picture of French society from the rise and fall of Napoleon until the revolution of 1848. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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