Honore De Balzac
Gobseck
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Sept. 28, 2017)
The plot of Gobseck, set during the French Restoration, concerns Anastasie de Restaud, née Goriot. Anastasie de Restaud is the daughter of a rich bourgeois who has married into the aristocracy, but is bored by her marriage, which is loveless and passionless. Anastasie de Restaud has an affair with Maxime de Trailles, and spends her fortune on de Trailles.She turns to the usurer Jean-Esther van Gobseck for financial assistance. Maître Derville acts as Gobseck’s lawyer. Subsequently both Anastasie's marriage is destroyed and her family fortune is lost.La scène débute dans le salon de Madame de Grandlieu, en conversation avec un ami de la famille, l’avoué Maître Derville.
- ISBN
- 1977693679 / 9781977693679
- Weight
- 7.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.2 in.
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