Honore De Balzac

The Firm of Nucingen

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Aug. 6, 2017)
This novella is a story told as a conversation between four "cormorants" (the metaphor is Balzac's) who sit and drink in a private room while their talk is overheard through the paper-thin partition and reported to us by Balzac himself (or a fictional representative of the writer). As in all of Balzac's tales of financial trickery, the machinations are incredibly involved and complex yet their effects are devastating...
ISBN
1974166996 / 9781974166992
Pages
100
Weight
7.2 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.2 in.

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