The Lily of the Valley

by Honore de Balzac

Overview

The Lily of the Valley, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781518706349
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2015
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, began his career as a pseudonymous writer of sensational potboilers before achieving success with a historical novel, The Chouans. Balzac then conceived his great work, La Comédie humaine, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to offer a complete picture of contemporary society and manners. Always working under an extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years. Also available from NYRB Classics are Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, and The Human Comedy: Selected Stories.

Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who has translated several books for NYRB Classics, including Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook, Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s The Tyrant Banderas, and Joan Sales’s Uncertain Glory. He lives in the UK.

Geoffrey O'Brien is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. He served as Editor-in-Chief of The Library of America for several years. His latest book, Arabian Nights of 1934, will be published in June 2023. He lives in Brooklyn.

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"In reading Balzac we can still feel and almost gratify those cravings which great literature ought to allay in us."