Overview
Balzac's first collection of short stories exploring women's role in society in various conjugal situations -- the daughter marrying against the father's wishes; the young woman marrying for love only to find she is no match for her husband's philandering; the unfaithful wife who brings her family to the brink of ruin; the religious zealot who so poisons her husband's existence so that he decides to lead a double life; the young woman who wishes at all costs to marry an aristocrat and who rejects the man she loves because she does not deem him of noble birth; the lovely, intelligent wife who uses her wiles to bring her straying husband back into the fold. This edition reproduces the text of the 1830 first edition. It comes with a cd-rom containing the scholarly apparatus prepared by Andrew Oliver, a renowned Balzac scholar.
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- ISBN-13: 9781496068576
- ISBN-10: 1496068572
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: February 2014
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.51 x 0.88 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.09 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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