by Honoré de Balzac · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782040160012
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«Esplendores y miserias de las cortesanas» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Bordas in 1985 in paperback (192 pages, in French).
In the Paris of 1824, the courtesan Esther Gobseck loves Lucien de Rubempré; Abbé Carlos Herrera exploits the banker Nucingen's passion for her to advance the young man's marriage. An intrigue of ambition, blackmail and love in which characters already appearing in Balzac's work cross paths.
It belongs to the Univers des Lettres Bordas collection and is a selection of texts («extraits») in French, with black-and-white illustrations. The work is part of «La Comédie humaine» and continues «Illusions perdues».
Edition designed for secondary and high school students, useful for classroom study of nineteenth-century French literature.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
