Colonel Chabert - Couverture souple

De Balzac, Honore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811213595 ISBN 13 : 9780811213592

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997

Synopsis

Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), born in Tours, ranks among the great masters of the novel. In 1816, he began studying law at the Sorbonne, but after receiving his license in 1819 he decided to abandon it for literature. By the time of his death, he had written over one hundred novels, novellas, and plays, many of them part of his greatest work, La Comedie humaine -- a reproduction of the French society of his time, picturing in precise detail more than 2,000 characters from every class and every profession.

Carol Cosman has translated works by Albert Camus and René Daumal, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811213595
• ISBN 13: 9780811213592
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 101
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible