Description
| Product ID: | 9780192846709 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | My Reading |
| Title: | Honore de Balzac |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Brooks |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers |
| Description: | A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac''s La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks''s own discovery of Balzac.A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. This volume shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-08-25 |
