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Seraphita by Honore de Balzac

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Seraphita
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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
ISBN/ASIN: 1406506826
Number of pages: 604

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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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