Domestic Peace: And Other Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the razor-sharp pen of Honoré de Balzac, Domestic Peace and Other Stories draws readers into the intricate web of 19th-century French bourgeois life, where the drawing room becomes a battlefield of desire, deception, and social ambition. This collection chronicles a cast of vividly rendered characters — scheming wives, cuckolded husbands, and calculating socialites — whose private lives unravel with darkly comic precision against the backdrop of post-Napoleonic Paris. Translated anew by M.A. Crawford for the Penguin Classics series, these stories showcase Balzac at his most incisive: a master observer of human weakness who presents the domestic sphere not as a sanctuary, but as a stage for vanity and moral compromise. Part of his vast Comédie Humaine project, the tales here illustrate his unparalleled ability to dissect an entire society through intimate, personal drama — leaving the reader to wonder just how much, beneath the veneer of propriety, has truly changed.
Author: Balzac
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the razor-sharp pen of Honoré de Balzac, Domestic Peace and Other Stories draws readers into the intricate web of 19th-century French bourgeois life, where the drawing room becomes a battlefield of desire, deception, and social ambition. This collection chronicles a cast of vividly rendered characters — scheming wives, cuckolded husbands, and calculating socialites — whose private lives unravel with darkly comic precision against the backdrop of post-Napoleonic Paris. Translated anew by M.A. Crawford for the Penguin Classics series, these stories showcase Balzac at his most incisive: a master observer of human weakness who presents the domestic sphere not as a sanctuary, but as a stage for vanity and moral compromise. Part of his vast Comédie Humaine project, the tales here illustrate his unparalleled ability to dissect an entire society through intimate, personal drama — leaving the reader to wonder just how much, beneath the veneer of propriety, has truly changed.