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Excerpt from The Deputy From Acris, Vol. 2: Instructive Letters (Continued) Trailles, if we are correctly informed, has recently been on the point of succumbing to a last and most alarming attack of the chronic disease with which he has long been af¿icted. That disease is his debt we do not speak of the debts, but the dehl' of Monsieur Maxime de Trailles, as we speak of the debt of Eng. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from The Gallery of Antiquities: An Old Maid IN one Of the least important prefectures of France, in the middle Of a town, at the corner of a street, stands a house, but the names Of that town and street must be withheld from the reader, who will, no doubt, in the end appreciate the motives of this wise reserve which propriety demands. A writer lays his finger on many a sore in becoming the annalist of his era. About the Publisher F...

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Excerpt from Honoré De Balzac, Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English: Adieu, The Conscript, The Executioner, The Exiles, Louis LambertThe discouraged huntsman seated himself on one of the stones at the foot of the sign-post, laid aside his gun and his empty game-bag, and drew a long breath.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

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Excerpt from Honoré De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 2 of 25: The First Complete Translation Into English, A Study of Woman, Another Study of Woman, La Grande Breteche, Peace in the House, the Imaginary Mistress, Albert Savarus, a Woman of Thirty, a Forsaken Lady, La Grenadiere, the Message, GobseckThere Is a good deal of inequality in the present col lection, which contains work conceived in very different manners and executed at very d...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Excerpt from Beatrix, And, the Purse (La Bourse)The first and larger part of the book, on the other hand the book proper, as we may call it - is a remarkable, a well designed, and a very interesting study. It is not so much of an additional attraction to me, as it perhaps is to most people, that contemporaries, without much contradiction, or in all cases improbability, chose to regard the parts and personages of Félicité des Touches, Beatrix d...

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Excerpt from The Lily of the Valley, And, Lost IllusionsI yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love as to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously overcome! We shed our blood, we risk our future!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

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Schon als Schüler ist der introvierte Louis Lambert, in dem sich Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) selbst porträtiert hat, ein Außenseiter, der von seinen Mitschülern nicht verstanden wird. Auch in seinem weiteren Leben entfernt sich Louis immer mehr von seinen Mitmenschen und gibt sich, angeregt durch die Schriften Svedenborgs, ausufernden metaphysischen Spekulationen hin. Selbst die Liebe zu der reichen Jüdin Pauline kann ihn nicht aus seiner Tra...

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