Ursula (Ursule Mirouet) - Honore De Balzac - Books - Mondial - 9781595690531 - August 25, 2006
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Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)

Honore De Balzac

Ursula (Ursule Mirouet)

"Ursula" (original French title "Ursule Mirouet," 1842) forms one part of "Scenes from Provincial Life," a series of novels-whose other major work is "Eugenie Grandet"-examining manners and morals in the French provinces. --- Among all the novels of Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), none depicts so penetratingly the small-mindedness, avarice, and envy of the provincial lower middle classes. In "Ursula", no limitations based on morality or decency will hold these people back in their effort to acquire wealth and influence. --- Along with Stendhal, Balzac is the most important French novelist of the first half of the nineteenth century, and a founder of the realistic novel in Europe. His principal work is the unfinished cycle "The Human Comedy" (French: "La Comedie Humaine," which includes "Scenes from Provincial Life"), in which he attempted, in more than 80 volumes, to depict the society of his time in its entirety.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 25, 2006
ISBN13 9781595690531
Publishers Mondial
Pages 204
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 12 mm   ·   263 g
Language English  
Contributor Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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