| A Start in Life: La Comédie Humaine: Un début dans la Vie Contributor(s): Wormeley, Katharine Prescott (Translator), De Balzac, Honore (Author) |
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ISBN: 198185276X ISBN-13: 9781981852765 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
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| Publisher Description: One of the coach operators on the Paris to l'Isle-Adam route is Pierrotin, a forty-year-old family man. He uses The Silver Lion Inn as his Paris base, overpacks his coach and flagrantly violates travel regulations but is much beloved by his loyal regulars. It is one Saturday in the fall of 1822 and Pierrotin is complaining that he only has four passengers and no parcels booked on this fine day. He is thrilled when a servant asks him to hold a place for his master, the Comte de Serizy. Pierrotin carries a lot of parcels for the Count's estate manager, Moreau, and is always generously tipped. The servant emphasizes that the Count wishes to travel incognito... |