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The marriage contract / Honore de Balzac.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- de Balzac, Honore, author.
- Series:
- The Human Comedy.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2014.
- System Details:
- Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1079 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 298 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1086 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 295 KB).
- Summary:
- The short novel The Marriage Contract is part of the Scenes from Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy . It delves directly into the question of the nature of marriage, which was rapidly evolving during the period. Kind-hearted bachelor Paul de Manerville becomes deeply smitten with the comely Natalie Evangelista and wants to marry for love, but Natalie and her scheming mother have their eyes on his vast fortune.
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen.
- ISBN:
- 9781634210133
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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