Ferragus

Overview

A fine thing is the task of a spy, when performed for one's own benefit and in the interests of a passion. Is it not giving ourselves the pleasure of a thief and a rascal while continuing honest men? But there is another side to it; we must resign ourselves to boil with anger, to roar with impatience, to freeze our feet in the mud, to be numbed, and roasted, and torn by false hopes. We must go, on the faith of a mere indication, to a vague object.

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Bio of Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac was a French novelist. He would become one of the creators of Realism in literature. His "Human Comedy" spanned more than 90 novels and short stories in an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in modern bourgeois France.

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123.30 KB

Number of Pages

148

eBook ISBN

9781102303916