by Honoré de Balzac · Bookking International · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782877141499
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«Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes» is the novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Bookking International in paperback, with 638 pages, in French.
In «Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes», Honoré de Balzac portrays nineteenth-century Paris through a plot of ambition, love, power and decadence. Courtesans, aristocrats and criminals see their destinies cross in a world of appearances and corruption, where apparent triumph can have a devastating price.
The work belongs to La Comédie humaine, where it occupies position 41 of the series, and was originally published in 1838.
For readers interested in the nineteenth-century French novel and in the La Comédie humaine cycle; the text is in French.
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.
