Farewell
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Description
Honore de Balzac's Farewell, translated by Ellen Marriage and dedicated to Prince Friedrich von Schwarzenberg, opens in a hurry toward dinner. A deputy of the Centre is urged to mend his pace, jump, and keep up, if the party means to sit down to dinner when everyone else does. From that brisk, comic opening, Balzac unfolds a tale of memory, war, and a farewell that echoes far beyond one evening.
Readers meet Balzac's gift for turning a small social scene into a large human drama, with soldiers, marquises, and dinner parties as his stage. The story favors character and irony, letting past wounds surface in present manners. It suits readers of Balzac's shorter fiction, and those who enjoy French realism where a farewell carries the weight of history.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 110 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |