{"product_id":"2026200011550-secondhand-domestic-peace-and-other-stories","title":"Domestic Peace: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nTranslated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130838622427,"sku":"2026200011550-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8e5ba75d-299e-479c-b641-8205c340d341.png?v=1786590948","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011550-secondhand-domestic-peace-and-other-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}