Ursule Mirouet (Classics) - Softcover

Balzac, Honoré De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140443169 ISBN 13: 9780140443165

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1976

Synopsis

An essentially simple tale about the struggles and triumph of innocence reviled, "Ursule Mirouet" is characterized by that wealth of penetrating observation so readily associated with Balzac's work. The twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illumianted by a consistently passionate rejection of both philosophic and practical materialsm is favor of love. In this case love is aided by supernatural intervention, which itself effectively illustrated Balzac's lifelong fascination with the occult.

About this title

About the Author:

The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140443169
• ISBN 13: 9780140443165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272