The Black Sheep

Honoré de Balzac, Donald Adamson

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French

Penguin Classics
29 September 2005

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

This translation captures the radical modernity of Balzac's style, while Adamson's introduction places The Black Sheep in its context as one of the great novels of Balzac's renowned Comedie Humaine

Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon's army. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child, but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores

is a compelling

exploration of the nature of deceit.

By: Honoré de Balzac
Translated by: Donald Adamson
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9780140442373
ISBN 10: 0140442375
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 29 September 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850. Translated with an introduction by Donald Adamson

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