Lost Souls av Honoré de Balzac

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<P><B>The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel <I>Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes</I> in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction</B><BR/><BR/> In <I>Lost Souls</I>, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in <I>Lost Illusions</I>, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. <BR/><BR/> An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast <I>Human Comedy</I> (in which he endeavored to capture all