Honorine by Honoré de Balzac
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"Honorine" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1843 as part of his series La Comédie humaine. Through a story-within-a-story, a consul recounts his time serving Count Octave, a melancholy nobleman whose beloved wife Honorine fled their marriage in shame. Though Octave secretly supports her from afar, she refuses all contact, consumed by remorse. The consul becomes an unwilling intermediary between the estranged couple, navigating questions of devotion, forgiveness, and
the complexities of love and honor in Restoration-era France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Bell, Clara, 1834-1927 |
| Title | Honorine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorine_(novel) |
| Credits | Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.1 (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. | 1683 |
| Release Date | Nov 6, 2004 |
| Last Update | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 496 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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