Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie Humaine #38

Lost Illusions

Honoré de Balzac with Herbert J. Hunt (Translator)

704 pages paperback 1837

96 editions

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way...

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