Two Poets
Honore De Balzac
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Description
Two Poets opens Balzac's Lost Illusions trilogy in the provincial town of Angouleme, where Lucien Chardon, a handsome young poet, and his friend David Sechard, a printer, dream of fame and fortune. Lucien's sister Eve binds the pair, and Lucien's love for a local noblewoman pulls him toward Paris.
The novel studies ambition in a small town: printing presses, paper mills, and salon gossip all shape a young writer's fate. Lucien's gifts and vanity carry the seeds of his later fall. It is a rich, detailed start to Balzac's great story of literature, money, and illusion.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Honore De Balzac |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 311 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |