by Honoré de Balzac · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253004448
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«Le Lys dans la vallée» is the classic novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Folio in paperback (448 pages, in French).
Félix de Vandenesse falls in love with Henriette de Mortsauf, a married woman, during a stay in the valley. Their relationship, full of letters and glances, wavers between desire and virtue. The novel, an epistolary confession, portrays Restoration French society and the idealisation of love.
It is part of La Comédie humaine, Balzac's narrative cycle, and is volume A31626 in Folio classique, with a preface by Paul Morand and an edition by Anne-Marie Meininger.
Aimed at readers of French classics interested in idealised love, the epistolary novel and the social portrait of nineteenth-century France.
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.
