In a shabby Paris boarding house an old vermicelli merchant sells the last of his silver to keep two daughters in the gowns their marriages require, while upstairs a law student learns the city's actual curriculum. Balzac compresses the whole Human Comedy into one street, and Rastignac's challenge from the cemetery closes it. Paintings of gas-lit streets, candlelit garrets and glittering salons; Gilded Library ornament of boarding-house key, mantel clock and tallow.
Englisch
Adam Bede : The Illustrated Gift Edition
The Law and the Lady : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Thérèse Raquin : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Dracula's Guest : The Illustrated Gift Edition
The Black Robe : The Illustrated Gift Edition
The Marble Faun : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales : The Illustrated Gift Edition
The Haunted Hotel : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Lady Audley's Secret : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Lorna Doone : The Illustrated Gift Edition
Northanger Abbey : The Illustrated Gift Edition
The Picture of Dorian Gray : The Illustrated Gift Edition
