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Appartiene alle SerieThe Human Comedy (Études de Moeurs - Scènes de la vie privée I | 10) È contenuto in
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML: An extract from Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy, the novel Albert Savarus details the dramatic twists and turns in a budding love affair between Albert, a young lawyer with literary ambitions, and a beautiful but conniving young woman named Rosalie. Though the story unfolds in a manner not unlike a typical romance, the surprise ending will leave readers reeling. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)843.7Literature French and related languages French fiction Constitutional monarchy 1815–48Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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This review is from: Albert Savarus (Paperback)
Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besancon, and focussing on the de Watteville family - the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe...and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. A colourless and insignificant young person, carefully brought up by Mama, so that 'at seventeen Rosalie had never read anything but the Lettres Edifiantes and some works on heraldry', she nonetheless has an unbending mind of her own, most particularly in her resolve never to marry the man her mother intends her for.
When the intriguing Albert Savarus - a successful, but mysterious, lawyer and later newspaper editor - arrives in town, Rosalie hears of him at dinner parties and becomes obsessed with him. But her seemingly unimportant manoeuvres ('all the time she was pondering these machinations, the extraordinary girl was working slippers for her father with the most innocent air in the world') have a massive outcome...
This was a wonderful read, both for the little moments of humour and the plot development. ( )