The Message by Honoré de Balzac
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"The Message" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1832. When a stagecoach accident leaves a young man fatally injured, he entrusts a fellow passenger with a delicate final mission: retrieve his secret love letters and return them to his married lover. The narrator's journey to fulfill this dying wish leads him to a château, where he must navigate the dangerous terrain of forbidden love, grief, and the painful
secrets hidden within a seemingly respectable marriage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Marriage, Ellen, 1865-1946 |
| Title | The Message |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Message |
| Credits | Produced by Dagny, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1189 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-01189-9 |
| Release Date | Apr 3, 2005 |
| Last Update | Apr 4, 2013 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 666 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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