| Ferragus, Book One of 'The Thirteen' by Honore de Balzac, Fiction, Literary, Historical Contributor(s): De Balzac, Honore (Author), Wormeley, Katharine Prescott (Translator), Saintsbury, George (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1598180584 ISBN-13: 9781598180589 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: To tell the truth, there is more power than taste throughout the Histoire des Treize, and perhaps not very much less unreality than power. Balzac is very much better than Eugene Sue, though Eugene Sue also is better than it is the fashion to think him just now. But he is here, to a certain extent competing with Sue on the latter's own ground. The notion of the "Devorants" - of a secret society of men devoted to each other's interests, entirely free from any moral or legal scruple, possessed of considerable means in wealth, ability, and position, all working together, by fair means or foul, for good ends or bad - is, no doubt, rather seducing to the imagination at all times. . . -- from George Saintsbury's Introduction |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 116 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Wormeley, Katharine Prescott: - "Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830 - 1908) was an American nurse in the Civil War, author, editor and translator of French language literary works. She was one of the best known translators of her time, having translated from the French language the complete works of Honoré de Balzac (40 vols., 1883-97) for American readers. She also translated the Narrative of Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, the memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria, as well as works by Molière (6 vols., 1892); Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon; Alphonse Daudet; and Alexandre Dumas, among others." |