by Honoré de Balzac · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266090223
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«Le Lys dans la vallée» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac, published by Pocket (FR) in paperback (400 pages, in French).
Set in 19th-century France, the novel revolves around an idealized love: the female figure is compared to a lily of the valley, while the narrator reflects on desire and virtue in an unequal relationship. A story marked by passion and renunciation.
It is part of Balzac's La Comédie Humaine and was originally published in 1835. This Classiques Pocket edition includes the complete text and the section «Les clés de l'œuvre».
For readers of French classics and 19th-century novels, as well as for those who want to start with the Human Comedy.
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.
