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Description edit
The creator of "Human Comedy" brings his ins ight to a portrait of a lady and a love affair set in the Lo ire Valley. The Lily of the Valley is one of Balzac''s person al favourites amoungst his innumerable novels '
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Characters/People edit
- Henriette: Add a description of this character.
- Madeleine
- Madame De Mortsauf
- Jacques
- Monsieur De Mortsauf
- Felix
- Clochegourde
- Lady Dudley
- Monsieur De Chessel
- Arabella
- Natalie
- Birotteau
- Monsieur Origet
- Monsieur Deslandes
- Monsieur Lepitre
- Madame De Chessel
- Doisy
- Martineau
- Charles
- Dominis
First Sentence edit
What unknown talent, fed with tears, will some day give us the most moving elegy; the portrayal of torments undergone in silence by souls whose still tender roots meet nothing but hard pebbles in the soil of home; whose first green shoots are torn by hate-filled hands, whose flowers are nipped by frost just as they open?
Series & Lists edit
This is book 10 of 21 in The Human Comedy. (standard series)
Preceded by Lost Illusions, and followed by A Harlot High and Low.
This is book 10 of 13 in Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Provencial Life. (standard series)
Preceded by The Collection of Antiquities, and followed by Lost Illusions.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Honoré de Balzac (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 843.7
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