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A Daughter of Eve

Honoré de Balzac

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .it can be written in two lines, and has in it nothing for literature. So, as happiness is only explicable to and by itself, these four years furnish nothing to relate which was not as tender as the soft outlines of eternal cherubs, as insipid, alas! as manna, and about as amusing as the tale of "Astrea."

In 1833, this edifice of happiness, so carefully erected by Felix de Vandenesse, began to crumble, weakened at its base without his knowledge. The heart of a woman of twenty-five is no longer that of a girl of eighteen, any more than the heart of a woman of forty is that of a woman of thirty. There are four ages in the life of woman; each age creates a new woman. Vandenesse knew, no doubt, the law of these transformations (created by our modern manners and morals), but he forgot them in his own case,—just as the best grammarian will forget a rule of grammar in writing a book, or the greatest general in the field under fire, surprised by some unlooked-for . . . Read More

Community Reviews

once again a young woman comes out looking like a fool, a Jew comes out looking like a knave, and the hero is a brilliant wise saintly noble aristocrat. Hmmph!

ŞAHANE BİR ESER, bitmesin duygusuyla okudum.

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"...yüreklerindeki aşk ateşi çoktan küllenmiş, yüzleri soğuk ve dünyasından bezmiş bir ifadedeydi; suratların ekşidiği ve hüzünlendiği, duyarlılığın sadece sofralarda ve maddi rahatlıklarda kaldığı bir yaştaydılar.
...kendilerini işlerine güçlerine vermi

Bir Havva Kızı, dini vecibelere göre iyi bir şekilde yetiştirilmiş iki kız kardeşten bir tanesinin başından geçen yarı aşk yarı entrika böyle karışık bir hikayeyi konu alan güzel bir kitap.

Annelerinin baskısıyla yetiştirilen bu iki dindar kızın büyüyüp evlenmeyi bir kaçış olarak görmesi ve sonrasınd

Acabé esta novelita hace una semana pero inicialmente me dio pereza escribirle una reseña. El argumento podría resumirse en lo siguiente: “mujer de un aristocrático marido perfecto se enamora de un artista bohemio imperfecto. Las consecuencias, si ustedes tienen curiosidad alguna, las encontrarán en

Honore de Balzac's work bears a certain Jekyll & Hyde quality: Either he is slipshod and rushed (the classic example is A Woman of Thirty), or he is in complete command of himself and takes the time and trouble to tie up all the loose ends. Fortunately, A Daughter of Eve is one of these latter. It i

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