{"product_id":"2026200015661-secondhand-a-harlot-high-and-low","title":"A Harlot High And Low","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadowy, morally ambiguous underworld of nineteenth-century Paris, Honoré de Balzac's A Harlot High and Low chronicles the gripping rise and catastrophic fall of Lucien de Rubempré, a dangerously ambitious young poet ensnared in the machinations of the brilliant and sinister Vautrin — an ex-convict who orchestrates society from the shadows. Part of Balzac's monumental La Comédie Humaine cycle, this novel plunges into the Parisian demi-monde with unflinching precision, unmasking the corruption lurking beneath the glittering facades of aristocratic salons, criminal underworlds, and the ruthless corridors of political power.\n\nBalzac's prose is at once panoramic and forensic, dissecting class, desire, and moral compromise with the cold eye of a social scientist and the passion of a dramatist. A Harlot High and Low stands as one of the great indictments of a society in which ambition and beauty are weaponised and ultimately destroyed by the very world they seek to conquer. For readers who dare to peer behind the velvet curtain of French Romanticism, Balzac's Paris is a city that never quite lets you go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203259572443,"sku":"2026200015661-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e7dd4ff5-7749-4022-a31d-d7084598b318.png?v=1788146666","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015661-secondhand-a-harlot-high-and-low","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}