Ursule Mirouët

Ursule Mirouët PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN: 9781331552628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Excerpt from Ursule Mirouet: And Other Stories "Ursule Mirouet, dedicated by Balzac to his niece, Sophie Surville, and avowedly written "in the fear of the young person," or, as the author more elegantly puts it, "in uncompromising respect of the noble principles of a pious education," exposes itself by the very fact to two different sorts of prejudice. It is sure to be cried up by one set of judges as "wholesome," and to be cried down by another as "goody." The latter charge is certainly unfair, for Balzac has by no means written the book in rose-pink and sky-blue only, nor has he been afraid to show things more or less as they are. Nevertheless, it is difficult not to admit that evidences of restraint and convention do exist. Ursule - even more than Eugenie, who becomes a person on at least two occasions, her struggle with her father, and her revanche over her cousin - is a thing of shreds and patches, an ideal being in whom that mysterious "candor," to which the French attach such excessive value in a girl, and which they make such haste to do away with altogether in a woman, seems to shut out all positive individuality. She is very nice; but she is not very human. Nor can the machinery of dreams, hypnotism, Swedenborgianism, and whatnot, which Balzac, following out one of his well-known manias, chose to work into the book, be said to add very largely to its verisimilitude. 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."

Ursule Mirouët

Ursule Mirouët PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN: 9781331552628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Excerpt from Ursule Mirouet: And Other Stories "Ursule Mirouet, dedicated by Balzac to his niece, Sophie Surville, and avowedly written "in the fear of the young person," or, as the author more elegantly puts it, "in uncompromising respect of the noble principles of a pious education," exposes itself by the very fact to two different sorts of prejudice. It is sure to be cried up by one set of judges as "wholesome," and to be cried down by another as "goody." The latter charge is certainly unfair, for Balzac has by no means written the book in rose-pink and sky-blue only, nor has he been afraid to show things more or less as they are. Nevertheless, it is difficult not to admit that evidences of restraint and convention do exist. Ursule - even more than Eugenie, who becomes a person on at least two occasions, her struggle with her father, and her revanche over her cousin - is a thing of shreds and patches, an ideal being in whom that mysterious "candor," to which the French attach such excessive value in a girl, and which they make such haste to do away with altogether in a woman, seems to shut out all positive individuality. She is very nice; but she is not very human. Nor can the machinery of dreams, hypnotism, Swedenborgianism, and whatnot, which Balzac, following out one of his well-known manias, chose to work into the book, be said to add very largely to its verisimilitude. 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."

Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Honoré De Balzac
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781331483434
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Excerpt from Ursule Mirouet It is a real pleasure, my dear niece, to dedicate to you a book, the subject and details of which have gained the hard-earned approval of a young girl who, as yet, knows nothing of the world and does not compromise with any of the lofty principles of a pious education. You young girls are a formidable public; for you ought to be allowed to read only books that are as pure as your minds, and you are forbidden certain literature as you are prevented from seeing society such as it is. May not an author therefore take pride in having pleased you? God grant that fondness has not deceived you! Who can say? 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.

Ursule Mirouet, And, Eugenie Grandet (Classic Reprint)

Ursule Mirouet, And, Eugenie Grandet (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN: 9780483844568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Excerpt from Ursule Mirouet, And, Eugenie Grandet The latter charge is certainly unfair, for Balzac has by no means written the book in rose-pink and sky-blue only, nor has he been afraid to show things more or less as they are. Nevertheless, it is difficult not to admit that evidences of restraint and convention do exist. Ursule - even more than Eugenie, who becomes a person on at least two occa sions, her struggle with her father, and her revanche over her cousin - is a thing of shreds and patches, an ideal being in whom that mysterious candor, to which the French attach such excessive value in a girl, and which they make such haste to do away with altogether in a woman, seems to shut out all positive individuality. She is very nice; but she is not very human. 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.

Notes on the Ursule Mirouet of H. De Balzac (Classic Reprint)

Notes on the Ursule Mirouet of H. De Balzac (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Félicien V. Paget
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267511792
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Excerpt from Notes on the Ursule Mirouet of H. De Balzac Entered according to Act Of Congress in the year 1889, BY edward T. Owen, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. 0. 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.

Eugénie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouët

Eugénie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouët PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483173736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Excerpt from Eugenie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouet: And Other Stories N such is, of course, quite excellent. She is not stupid, as her kind are supposed to be; she is only blindly faithful, as well as thoroughly good-hearted. Nor is the unfortunate Madame Grandet an idiot, nor are any of the comparses mere dummies. But naturally they all, even Eugenie herself to some extent, serve mainly as sets-off to the terrible Grandet. In him Balzac, a Frenchman of Frenchmen, has boldly de )icted perhaps the worst and the commonest vice of the French character, the vice which is more common, and certam worse than either the frivolity or the license with which the nation is usually charged - the pushing, to wit, of thrift to the loathsome excess of an inhuman avarice. But he has jus tified himself to his country by communicating to his hero an unquestioned grandeur. The mirage works again, but it works with splendid effect. One need not be a sentimentalist to shudder a little at the ta ta ta to of Grandet, the refrain of a money-grabbing which almost escapes greediness by its diabolical extravagance and success. 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.

Eugénie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouët

Eugénie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouët PDF Author: Honore ́ de Balzac
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334500695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 818

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Excerpt from Eugenie Grandet, And, Ursule Mirouet: And Other Stories It is also difficult to make too much allowance for the fatal effect of an education under an insignificant if amiable mother and a tyrannical father, and of a confinement to an excessively small circle of extremely provincial society, on a disposition of more nobility than intellectual height or range. Still it must, I think, be permitted to the advocatus diaboli to urge that Eugenie's martyrdom is almost too thorough; that though complete, it is not, as Gautier said of his own ill luck, artistement complet that though it may be difficult to put the finger on any special blot, to say, Here the girl should have revolted, or Here she would have behaved in some other way differently still there is a vague sense of incomplete lifelikeness - of that tendency to mirage and ex aggeration which has been, and will be, so often noticed. 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."

Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouët, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouët, and Other Stories (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN: 9780483189232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Excerpt from Father Goriot, Ursule Mirouet, and Other Stories It would, however, not be difficult to find books with an almost, if not quite, equal accumulation of attractions, which have somehow failed to make the mark that has been made by Father Goriot And the practiced critic of novels knows perfectly well why this is. It is almost invariably, and perhaps quite invariably, because there is no sufficiently central interest, or because that interest is not of the broadly human kind. Had Goriot had no daughters, he would undoubtedly have been a happier man (or a less happy, for it is possible to take it both ways); but the history of his decadence and death never could have been such a good novel. It is because this history of the daughters - not exactly unnatural, not wholly without excuse, but as surely murderesses of their father as Goneril and Regan - ar once unites and overshadows the whole, because of its intensity, its simple and suasive appeal, that Father Goriot holds the place it does hold. That it owes something in point of suggestion to Lear does not in the least impair its claims. The circumstances and treatment have that entire difference which, when genius is indebted to genius, pays all the score there is at once. And, besides, Lear has offered its motive for three hundred years to thousands and millions of people who have been writing plays and novels, and yet there is only one Father Goriot. 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.

Ursule Mirouet (Classic Reprint)

Ursule Mirouet (Classic Reprint) PDF Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243229765
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 320

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Excerpt from Ursule Mirouet Le maitre de Nemours, pour nous servir de l'abrevia tion usitee en beaucoup de pays, portait une veste de chasse en velours vert-bouteille, un pantalon de coutil vert a raies vertes, un ample gilet jaune en poil de chevref dans la poche duquel on apercevait une tabatiere mous-i trueuse dessinee par un cercle noir. A nez a ard rosse tabatiere, est une loi presque sans exception. 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.

Ursule Mirouet

Ursule Mirouet PDF Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377448251
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Ursule Mirouët

Ursule Mirouët PDF Author: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781012202583
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Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.