French writer Honore de Balzac had many unique strengths, and chief among them is his ability to limn and illuminate subtle differences between social classes. In this pastoral novel, Balzac explores the virtues and follies of country life through...
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French writer Honore de Balzac had many unique strengths, and chief among them is his ability to limn and illuminate subtle differences between social classes. In this pastoral novel, Balzac explores the virtues and follies of country life through the eyes of Emile Blondet, a journalist who was born and raised in the provinces, works in Paris, and has returned to the countryside of his youth for a much-needed vacation
Title; Contents; Dedication; PART I; Chapter I - The Chateau; Chapter II - A Bucolic Overlooked by Virgil; Chapter III - The Tavern; Chapter IV - Another Idyll; Chapter V - Enemies Face to Face; Chapter VI - A Tale of Thieves; Chapter VII - Certain Lost Social Species; Chapter VIII - The Great Revolutions of a Little Valley; Chapter IX - Concerning the Mediocracy; Chapter X - The Sadness of a Happy Woman; Chapter XI - The Oaristys, Eighteenth Eclogue of Theocritus; Chapter XII - Showeth How the Tavern is the People's Parliament; Chapter XIII - A Type of the Country Usurer; PART II
Chapter I - The Leading Society of SoulangesChapter II - The Conspirators in the Queen's Salon; Chapter III - The Cafe de la Paix; Chapter IV - The Triumvirate of Ville-aux-Fayes; Chapter V - Victory Without a Fight; Chapter VI - The Forest and the Harvest; Chapter VII - The Greyhound; Chapter VIII - Rural Virtue; Chapter IX - The Catastrophe; Chapter X - The Triumph of the Vanquished; Addendum; Endnotes
