Honorine - Honoré De Balzac

Exquisitely deploying the story-within-a-story narrative, \'Honorine\' is a tale casting piercing insight into the fabric of the human condition. Comtesse Honorine de Bauvan was married off to the Comte at the age of nineteen. After being unfaithful, she is abandoned by her lover when she falls pregnant. She leads a simple but comfortable life and earns a living by crafting artificial flowers. What she doesn\'t know is that her comfort is assured by way of her husband paying exorbitant prices to... Zobrazit více