Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

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Prometheus: The Life of Balzac 'The story of Balzac's life - apart from his work which, in fact, took up the greater part of his time - is largely that of money and mistresses M. Maurois's Balzac is presented as rather less of a mons4re sacré than is usually the case, but he remains suíficiently extraordinary to satisfy anyone who likes his genius high' - Anthony Hartley in the Guardian '. . . it is the kind of book which everybody reads with pleasure . . .' - Sunday Times 'lf he never does another biography, Balzac takes him out on the erest of the wave '...'- The Times '. . . the Balzac family were in all ways excessive. Life suffered from a sort of elephantiasis of the event as soon as it got near to them . . . this enjoyable biography' - Rebecca West PELICAN BIOGRAPHIES To a unique degree good biography brings history to life. This new series aims to bring together somé of the best modern 'lives' of notable men and women of all periods and in all spheres: somé can be classed... Tovább

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Prometheus: The Life of Balzac 'The story of Balzac's life - apart from his work which, in fact, took up the greater part of his time - is largely that of money and mistresses M. Maurois's Balzac is presented as rather less of a mons4re sacré than is usually the case, but he remains suíficiently extraordinary to satisfy anyone who likes his genius high' - Anthony Hartley in the Guardian '. . . it is the kind of book which everybody reads with pleasure . . .' - Sunday Times 'lf he never does another biography, Balzac takes him out on the erest of the wave '...'- The Times '. . . the Balzac family were in all ways excessive. Life suffered from a sort of elephantiasis of the event as soon as it got near to them . . . this enjoyable biography' - Rebecca West PELICAN BIOGRAPHIES To a unique degree good biography brings history to life. This new series aims to bring together somé of the best modern 'lives' of notable men and women of all periods and in all spheres: somé can be classed as definitive, all are both readable and authoritative. Literary biography fiqures largely in the series (with lives of Tolstoy, Dickens, Mark Twain, Kipling, Conrad, Wells, Balzac and Baudelaire), but biographies of monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and scientists, artists, composers and others will alsó be included. The cover shows a detail from a portrait of Balzac by Boulanger, in the Musée des Beaux Árts, Tours (Snark International) For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A. Vissza