Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-585).
Contents:
Translator's introduction -- Lost illusions: -- The two poets -- The Parisian adventures of a great man from the provinces -- The ordeals of an inventor: -- Introduction: the sorrowful confessions of a child of the century ; part I. The history of a legal case; part ii. The fatal member of the family -- Translator's notes.
Summary:
This novel, published in three parts between 1837 and 1843, tells the story of Lucien de Rubempré, a talented young poet who leaves behind a scandalous provincial life for the shallow, corrupt, and cynical vortex of modernity that was nineteenth-century Paris.
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