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A Lost Illusion A Novel
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Author : Leslie KEITH (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
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Lost Illusions
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Lost Illusions written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Fiction categories.
A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac’s Comédie Humaine—a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu Lost Illusions is an essential text within Balzac’s Comédie Humaine, his sprawling, interconnected fictional portrait of French society in the 1820s and 1830s comprising nearly one hundred novels and short stories. This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempré, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenth-century Paris—where his artistic idealism slowly dissipates until he eventually decides to return home. Balzac poured many of his thematic preoccupations and narrative elaborations into Lost Illusions, from the contrast between life in the provinces and the all-consuming world of Paris to the idealism of poets, the commodification of art, the crushing burden of poverty and debt, and the triumphant cynicism of hack journalists and social climbers. The novel teems with characters, incidents, and settings, though perhaps none so vivid as its panoramic and despairing view of Paris as the nexus of modernity’s cultural, social, and moral infection. For Balzac, no institution better illustrates the new reality than Parisian journalism: “amoral, hypocritical, brazen, dishonest, and murderous,” he writes. In this new translation, Raymond N. MacKenzie brilliantly captures the tone of Balzac’s incomparable prose—a style that is alternatingly impassioned, overheated, angry, moving, tender, wistful, digressive, chatty, intrusive, and hectoring. His informative annotations guide the modern reader through the labyrinth of Balzac’s allusions.
Lost Illusions
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Lost Illusions
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Release Date : 1989-01-01
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A Lost Illusion A Novel
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Author : Leslie KEITH (pseud. [i.e. Grace L. Keith Johnston.])
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
A Lost Illusion A Novel written by Leslie KEITH (pseud. [i.e. Grace L. Keith Johnston.]) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Lost Illusions
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Author : Honorae De Balzac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-12
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Excerpt from Lost Illusions: Illusions Perdues and Gaudissart II The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, "Illusions Perdues," suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from the mixture of the Angouleme scenes of its first and third parts with the purely Parisian interest of "Un Grand Homme de Province." It is hardly possible to exaggerate the gain in distinctness and lucidity of arrangement derived from putting "Les Deux Poetes" and "Eve et David" (a much better title than that which has been preferred in the "Edition Definitive") together in one volume, and reserving the greatness and decadence of Lucien de Rubempre for another. It is distinctly awkward that this should be divided, as it is itself an enormous episode, a sort of Herodotean parenthesis, rather than an integral part or the story. And, as a matter of fact, it joins on much more to the "Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtesanes" than to its actual companions. In fact, it is an instance of the somewhat haphazard and arbitrary way in which the actual division of the "Comedie" has worked, that it should, dealing as it does wholly and solely with Parisian life, be put in the "Scenes de la Vie de Province," and should be separated from its natural conclusion not merely as a matter of volumes, but as a matter of divisions. In making the arrangement, however, it is necessary to remember Balzac's own scheme, especially as the connection of the three parts in other ways is too close to permit the wrenching of them asunder altogether and finally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Lost Illusions
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Author : Herbert Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-01-27
Lost Illusions written by Herbert Hunt and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-27 with Fiction categories.
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, 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 Comédie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.
Lost Illusions
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Author : Honore de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-09-01
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Illusions perdues — in English, Lost Illusions — is a serial novel written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces. Thus it resembles another of Balzac's greatest novels, La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, 1842), in that it is set partly in Paris and partly in the provinces. It is, however, unique among the novels and short stories of La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy, 1799–1850) by virtue of the even-handedness with which it treats both geographical dimensions of French social life.
Lost Souls
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Lost Souls written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Fiction categories.
The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in Lost Illusions, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast Human Comedy (in which he endeavored to capture all of society), Lost Souls appears here in its first new English translation in half a century. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, this edition also includes an introduction presenting thorough biographical, literary, and historical context, as well as extensive notes throughout the text—an invaluable resource for today’s readers as they navigate Balzac’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature.
Lost Illusions Illusions Perdues
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Author : Honor de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Lost Illusions Illusions Perdues written by Honor de Balzac and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Fiction categories.
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