The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (Classic Reprint)

The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (Classic Reprint)
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Total Pages : 904
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ISBN-10 : 0332780856
ISBN-13 : 9780332780856
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Download or read book The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (Classic Reprint) written by Honore de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-29 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans The first idea of the human comedy came to me like a dream, an impossible project which I wel comed and then allowed to escape; it was a charm ing fancy that showed its smiling face but for an in stant, and spreading its wings fluttered back into a visionary heaven. Still, fancy often changes into fact and its tyrannical commands cannot be resisted. The idea occurred to me, in consequence of a com parison between the human and animal kingdoms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


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