Beatrix / Honore de Balzac ; translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Balzac, Honore, author.

Contributor:

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--Translations into English.

French fiction.

Brittany (France)--Fiction.

Brittany (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland, [New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1839.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well as the larger cultural shift from an era of genteel aristocracy and class stratification to a more democratic way of living.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Note; I - A Breton Town and Mansion; II - The Baron, His Wife, and Sister; III - Three Breton Silhouettes; IV - A Normal Evening; V - Calyste; VI - Biography of Camille Maupin; VII - Les Touches; VIII - La Marquise Beatrix; IX - A First Meeting; X - Drama; XI - Female Diplomacy; XII - Correspondence; XIII - Duel Between Women; XIV - An Excursion to Croisic; XV - Conti; XVI - Sickness Unto Death; XVII - A Death: A Marriage; XVIII - The End of a Honey-Moon; XIX - The First Lie of a Pious Duchess; XX - A Short Treatise on Certainty: But Not from Pascal''s Point of View

XXI - The Wickedness of a Good WomanXXII - The Normal History of an Upper-Class Grisette; XXIII - One of the Diseases of the Age; XXIV - The Influence of Social Relations and Position; XXV - A Prince of Bohemia; XXVI - Disillusions-In All but La Fontaine''s Fables; Addendum; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2014).

ISBN:

1-77653-960-5

OCLC:

887504882