Start in Life.
Title:
Start in Life.
Author:
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.
ISBN:
9781776538423
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I - That Which was Lacking to Pierrotin's Happiness -- Chapter II - The Steward in Danger -- Chapter III - The Travellers -- Chapter IV - The Grandson of the Famous Czerni-Georges -- Chapter V - The Drama Begins -- Chapter VI - The Moreau Interior -- Chapter VII - A Mother's Trials -- Chapter VIII - Tricks and Farces of the Embryo Long Robe -- Chapter IX - La Marquise de las Florentinas y Cabirolos -- Chapter X - Another Catastrophe -- Chapter XI - Oscar's Last Blunder -- Addendum -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. In much of Balzac's work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who are mercilessly skewered when what starts out as a harmless prank rapidly snowballs into a comedy of errors with profound consequences.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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