The Duchesse de Langeais, Book Two of 'The Thirteen' by Honore de Balzac, Fiction, Literary, Historical

ISBN-13: 9781598189865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 124 str.

Honore De Balzac; Ellen Marriage

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Book II of Balzac's 'The Thirteen"

"Considering the "Histoire des Treize" as a whole, it is of engrossing interest. And I must confess I should not think much of any boy who, beginning Balzac with this series, failed to go rather mad over it. I know there was a time when I used to like it best of all, and thought not merely "Eugenie Grandet, " but "Le Pere Goriot" (though not the "Peau de Chagrin), " dull in comparison. Some attention, however, must be paid to two remarkable characters, on whom it is quite clear that Balzac expended a great deal of pains, and one of whom he seems to have 'caressed, ' as the French say, with a curious admixture of dislike and admiration. . . ."

-- George Saintsbury