Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846

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Honoré de Balzac. Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846

Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846

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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

LETTERS

I. LETTERS DURING 1833

II. LETTERS DURING 1834

III. LETTERS DURING 1835

IV. LETTERS DURING 1836

V. LETTERS DURING 1837

VI. LETTERS DURING 1838

VII. LETTERS DURING 1839, 1840, 1841

VIII. LETTERS DURING 1843, 1844, 1845

IX. LETTERS DURING 1846.[1]

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Some days after receiving this letter you will read "Une Fille d'Ève," who will be the type of the "La Femme abandonnée," taken between fifteen and twenty years of age.

At this moment I am finishing a work that is quite evangelical, and which seems to me the "Imitation of Jesus Christ" poetized. It bears an epigraph which will tell the disposition of mind I was in when writing the book: To wounded hearts, silence and shade. One must have suffered to understand that line to its full extent; and one must also have suffered as much as I have done to give birth to it in a day of mourning.

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