The Middle Classes (Les Petits Bourgeois) (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 0260514519 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780260514516 |
Rating | : 4/5 (516 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Middle Classes (Les Petits Bourgeois) (Classic Reprint) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Middle Classes (Les Petits Bourgeois) The book, when in his letters Balzac spoke of it as first nearly finished and then actually 'set up, ' bore the title of Les Petits Bourgeois de Paris, but nobody seems to have seen the ms. Or the proofs. It actually appeared in the Pay: during the autumn of 1854, and was afterwards issued as a book by the publisher de Potter in eight vol umes - four bearing the present title in 1856, and the other four as Les Parvenus in 1857. The first part had twenty-seven, and the second twenty-five chapter divi sions with headings. M. De Lovenjoul does not mention whether there was any special authority for the suppres sion of these when the book was at last, a few years ago, made part of the Comedte, or whether it was done in accordance with Balzac' s usual practice. 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.