Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
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Lost Illusions, by Honore De Balzac
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Title: Lost Illusions
Author: Honore De Balzac
Release Date: August 11, 2004 [EBook #13159]
Language: English
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LOST ILLUSIONS
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
PREPARER'S NOTE
The trilogy known as Lost Illusions consists of: Two Poets A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Eve and David
In many references parts one and three are combined under the title Lost Illusions and A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is given its individual title. Following this trilogy is a sequel, Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, which is set directly following the end of Eve and David.
LOST ILLUSIONS
INTRODUCTION
The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from the mixture of the Angouleme scenes of its first and third parts with the purely Parisian interest of Un Grand Homme de Province. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the gain in distinctness and lucidity of arrangement derived from putting Les Deux Poetes and Eve et David (a much better tit