Seraphita
by Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co. 1916
ISBN/ASIN: 1406506826
Number of pages: 604
Description:
The work plunges into the fantastic and the supernatural self (a genre that Balzac always approached with success). In a castle in Norway near the fjord Stromfjord, Seraphitus, a strange and melancholic being, conceals a terrible secret ...
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