Balzac

V. S Pritchett

ISBN 10: 039448357X / ISBN 13: 9780394483573

Published by Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973, 1973

About this Item

Name stamp inside cover, magic marker streak to FFE, else tight and clean. DJ shows minor edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 264894

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Balzac
• Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] January 1973
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039448357X
• ISBN 13: 9780394483573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • 6-LITERARY CRITICISM

About this title

Synopsis

with all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V.S. Pritchett here give us a penetrating full scale portrait of the most extravagant of all the great novelists_the masssively gifted, massively human Balzac...

From the Publisher

After his brilliant lectures in The Living Novel on the English, Russian and French novelists, and his celebrated portrait of a spendthrift in A Cab at the Door, V.S. Pritchett turns his command of irony and comedy to the most extravagant of all great novelists, Honoré de Balzac.