Lost Illusions
Author(s): Honore de Balzac
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.49
- : October 1976
- : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Honore de Balzac
- : Paperback
- : 2004
- : English
- : 843.7
- : very good
- : 720
- : FC
More About The Product
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850. Herbert J. Hunt has been a Fellow at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Professor of French Language and Literature at London University, and Senior Fellow at Warwick University. He published books on literature and thought in nineteenth-century France, and was the author of a biography of Balzac. he died in 1973.