Balzac

Robb, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330320157 / ISBN 13: 9780330320153

Published by Picador, 2000

About this Item

'Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject' Observer Num Pages: 521 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 45. Weight in Grams: 468. . 2000. New Ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780330320153

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Balzac
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330320157
• ISBN 13: 9780330320153
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page.

The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. Robb skilfully interweaves the life with the work to paint an indelible and brilliantly compelling portrait of one of the great tragicomic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been and is still immense.

About the Author

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.