The Lily in the Valley
By Honoré De Balzac
Introduction by Geoffrey O’Brien
Translated by Peter Bush
By Honoré De Balzac
Introduction by Geoffrey O’Brien
Translated by Peter Bush
By Honoré De Balzac
Introduction by Geoffrey O’Brien
Translated by Peter Bush
By Honoré De Balzac
Introduction by Geoffrey O’Brien
Translated by Peter Bush
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$17.95
Jul 23, 2024 | ISBN 9781681377988
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Jul 23, 2024 | ISBN 9781681377995
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Praise
“An imagination of the highest power, an unequalled intensity of vision. . . . What [Balzac] did above all was to read the universe, as hard and as loud as he could, into the France of his time.” —Henry James
“The Lily in the Valley, with its focus on love rather than money, is something of an outlier among [Balzac’s] books. It is also, at least in its depiction of its main character’s wretched childhood, Balzac’s most autobiographical novel…. Early 19th-century French society comes alive.” —Heller McAlpin, The Wall Street Journal
“It is a perplexing novel, and one that shows a side of Balzac not often seen…. Balzac took as his basis well-established tropes — the forbidden romance, the love triangle of differing temperaments, the unhappily married woman, the young man on the rise — and the epistolary novel form to create a pre-Freudian exploration of thwarted, repressed sexuality and deceit (of self and others).” —Eric Vanderwall, On the Seawall
“The Lily in the Valley is an engaging and affecting story… an incisive study of the constrained realities of women’s lives during the early 19th century, with the author showing his characteristic deep empathy for their plight, along with an ironic perception of masculine arrogance and complacency.” —Rob Latham, Los Angeles Review of Books
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