Balzac by Graham Robb
Balzac was the living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described. Compared to Balzac, Flaubert, Henry James and Tolstoy are mere observers. Like the arch-criminal Vantrin, Balzac was an expert in manipulation, he was a passionate collector, a perfect companion and like Baron Hulot, he was a relentless seducer. This book takes readers through Balzac's early literary disappointments and his relentless struggle against poverty, and how he developed his extraordinary powers of hard work and concentration in his early 20s, churning out a factory line of cheap, melodramatic novels. It shows how his desire for literary success and wealth led to various hair-brained entrepreneurial schemes and how his private life became a series of misadventures that culminated in an unfortunate correspondence with the Polish countess, Eveline Hanska, whom he wanted to marry.
Robb, Graham: - Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330332378 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330332376 |
| Title | Balzac |
| Author | Graham Robb |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 1994-06-10 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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