The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac
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"The Marriage Contract" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1835. When wealthy Parisian bachelor Paul de Manerville falls for beautiful Spanish heiress Natalie Evangelista, he ignores his worldly friend's warnings and plunges into marriage. Blinded by romantic illusions, Paul fails to see the scheming ambitions of Natalie's calculating mother or recognize where his bride's true loyalties lie. This tale explores the dangerous gap between marital dreams and harsh reality,
following not just the courtship but the cold negotiations that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 |
| Title | The Marriage Contract |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Contrat_de_mariage |
| Credits | Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Marriage -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Subject | French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 1556 |
| Release Date | Mar 12, 2005 |
| Last Update | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 631 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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