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The Unknown Masterpiece
by Honore de Balzac
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0940322749
- ISBN 13
- 9780940322745
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
NZ$11.92NZ$10.72
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About This Item
Trade paperback edition published by New York Review Books Classics. This copy would appear to be an unread, unused copy. There are no creases to the cover or spine. It is not a remainder, not a library discard. No creases, no writing, no former ownership marks. There is a slight smudge mark on the edge of the text block, starting at page 9 - see the attached photos for more details on the condition. One of Balzac's most celebrated tales, this is the story of a painter who is either a transcendent genius, or abject failure. Published together with the short work, "Gambara". Translated by Richard Howard. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
Synopsis
Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels. He organized his works into his masterpiece, La Comedie Humaine, which was the final result of his attempt to grasp the whole of society and experience into one varied but unified work. Richard Howard was born in Cleveland in 1929. He is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and has published more than one hundred fifty translations from the French, including works by Gide, Stendhal, de Beauvoir, Baudelaire, and de Gaulle. Howard received a National Book Award for his translation of Fleurs du mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects , a collection of poetry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20-279
- Title
- The Unknown Masterpiece
- Author
- Honore de Balzac
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0940322749
- ISBN 13
- 9780940322745
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2000-08-31
- Keywords
- classics, NYRB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature in Translation; Fiction; New York Review Books; 20Q2;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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