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Lost Illusions
Translated with an Introduction by
Herbert J. Hunt
This novel of a young man who is bored
with provincial life and tries to make
his way in Parisian society is part of
The Human Comedy.
384 pp. 978-0-14-044251-9 $17.00
Old Goriot
Translated with an Introduction by
Marion Ayton Crawford
The intersecting lives of a group of people
living in a working-class boardinghouse
in nineteenth-century Paris form the
background of this indictment of the
cruelty of city society.
304 pp. 978-0-14-044017-1 $13.00
Selected Short Stories
Selected and Translated with an
Introduction by Sylvia Raphael
This collection includes “El Verdugo,”
“Domestic Peace,” “A Study in Feminine
Psychology,” “An Incident in the Reign of
Terror,” “The Conscript,” “The Red Inn,”
“The Purse,” “La Grande Bretèche,” “A
Tragedy by the Sea,” “The Atheist’s Mass,”
“Facino Cane,” and “Pierre Grassou.”
272 pp. 978-0-14-044325-7 $15.00
The Wild Ass’s Skin
Translated with an Introduction by
Herbert J. Hunt
Balzac is concerned with the choice
between ruthless self-gratification
and asceticism, and dissipation and
restraint, in a novel that is powerful in
its symbolism and realistic depiction of
decadence.
288 pp. 978-0-14-044330-1 $15.00
henri barbusse
1873 – 1935, French
Under Fire
Translated by Robin Buss
Introduction by Jay Winter
Winner of the Prix Goncourt
Written during World War I and based
on the author’s own experiences, this
gripping new translation vividly evokes
life in the trenches—the mud, the stench,
and monotony of waiting while under fire
in an eternal battlefield.
352 pp. 978-0-14-303904-4 $15.00
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