Balzac

V. S Pritchett

ISBN 10: 039448357X / ISBN 13: 9780394483573

Published by Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973, 1973

About this Item

Name stamp inside cover, magic marker streak to FFE, else tight and clean. DJ shows minor edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 264894

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Balzac
• Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039448357X
• ISBN 13: 9780394483573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • 6-LITERARY CRITICISM

About this title

Synopsis

with all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V.S. Pritchett here give us a penetrating full scale portrait of the most extravagant of all the great novelists_the masssively gifted, massively human Balzac...

From the Inside Flap

Balzac was a man who turned all his life into words. From his extensive correspondence with his family, with the women he loved and above all, with Madame Hanska, the imperious Polish Countess, and with a novelist?s eye for scene, Pritchett shows us Balzac in the Parisian swim of the 1830s and ?40s - the Paris of Louis Phillippe, Daumier, Delacroix and the Romantics.