Books with author By (author) Honore De Balzac

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French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac is widely regarded as the founder of realism in European fiction, due to his keen observations and his unfiltered presentation of society. Although Balzac was a prolific writer finishing over ninety works in his life time he left many unfinished. During his life he attempted to be a publisher, businessman, critic and politician; failing at everything but writing he used his personal experiences that he got from each of these endeavors into his work.

An entry in The French Classical Romances Series, "The Memoirs of Two Young Brides" was written by Honoré de Balzac and translated from the original French to English by The Lady Mary Loyd. For this edition, a critical Introduction is written by Henry James, a short piece entitled "Life of Balzac" by Edmund Gosse, and a frontispiece and numberous other portraits with descriptive notes are provided by Octave Uzanne (including a final section entitled "Curious Unpublished or Unknown Portraits of Honoré de Balzac").

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This short story, a part of the Comedie Humaine, begins with Balzac criticising the annual exhibition at the Louvre which nowadays admits a greater number- largely unworthy- works. He then tells the tale of Pierre Grassou, a likeable but rather unskilled artist, who grafts for years producing 'servile imitations' of great works, which he then sells on for a pittance to a dealer, who manages to sell them all. One day, his pitying friends, 'great' artists themselves, arrange to have one of his works shown at the Salon... Interesting story with a twist at the end. Balzac also includes a consideration of how it is that so many mediocre individuals 'make it'- whether through pity of others, their likeability etc.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.