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The Lesser Bourgeoisie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (634 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout his entire literary career, French writer Honore de Balzac was fascinated by the many ways in which social class can impact the trajectory of a life. In the early novel The Lesser Bourgeoisie, an ambitious young lawyer named Theodose de la Peyrade tries every trick in the book to ingratiate himself with the affluent Thuillier family -- and finds his integrity threatened along the way.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Dedication; PART I - THE LESSER BOURGEOIS OF PARIS; Chapter I - Departing Paris; Chapter II - The History of a Tyranny; Chapter III - Colleville; Chapter IV - The Circle of Monsieur and Madame Thuillier; Chapter V - A Principal Personage; Chapter VI - A Keynote; Chapter VII - The Worthy Phellions; Chapter VIII - Ad Majorem Theodosis Gloriam; Chapter IX - The Banker of the Poor; Chapter X - How Brigitte was Won; Chapter XI - The Reign of Theodose; Chapter XII - Devils Against Devils; Chapter XIII - The Perversity of Doves; Chapter XIV - One of Cerizet''s Female Clients
- Chapter XV - The Difficulties that Crop up in the Easiest of TheftsChapter XVI - Du Portail; Chapter XVII - In Which the Lamb Devours the Wolf; Chapter XVIII - Set a Saint to Catch a Saint; PART II - THE PARVENUS; Chapter I - Phellion, Under a New Aspect; Chapter II - The Provencal''s Present Position; Chapter III - Good Blood Cannot Lie; Chapter IV - Hungary Versus Provence; Chapter V - Showing How Near the Tarpeian Rock is to the Capitol; Chapter VI - ''Twas Thus They Bade Adieu; Chapter VII - How to Shut the Door in People''s Faces; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX - Give and Take
- Chapter X - In Which Cerizet Practises the Healing Art and the Art of Poisoning on the Same DayChapter XI - Explanations and What Came of Them; Chapter XII - A Star; Chapter XIII - The Man Who Thinks the Star Too Bright; Chapter XIV - A Stormy Day; Chapter XV - At du Portail''s; Chapter XVI - Checkmate to Thuillier; Chapter XVII - In the Exercise of His Functions; Translator''s Note; Addendum; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-77653-938-9
- OCLC:
- 887504889
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