A Harlot High and Low (edit title)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, September 24 2009.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, September 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Honoré de Balzac: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray changed the title of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, September 24 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, September 24 2009.

• INIn 1824, at last Opera ball, a number of maskers were taken with the good looks of a young man walking about the corridors and the crush-room, with the air of somebody waiting for a woman kept at home by unforeseen circumstances.

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, September 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Honoré de Balzac: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of A Harlot High and Low Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. "Lost Illusions" is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Harlot High and Low Thursday, July 16 2009.

• IN 1824, at last Opera ball, a number of maskers were taken with the good looks of a young man walking about the corridors and the crush-room, with the air of somebody waiting for a woman kept at home by unforeseen circumstances.