A Start in Life
by Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Roberts brothers 1895
ISBN/ASIN: 1406506842
Number of pages: 444
Description:
A Start in Life (Un Debut dans la vie) contains many comic moments of a young man's adventures starting out in life as he falls prey to temptations and practical jokes. By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction.
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