The Lily Of The Valley The Firm Of Nucingen The Country Doctor And Other Stories

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN 13 : 9781332502431
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Lily of the Valley; The Firm of Nucingen; The Country Doctor written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lily of the Valley; The Firm of Nucingen; The Country Doctor: And Other Stories Le Lys dans la Vdllee has considerable importance in the history of Balzac's books and not a little in that of his life, independently of its intrinsic merit. It brought on a lawsuit between him and the Revue de Paris, in which the greater part of it was published, and in which he refused to complete it. As the actual suit was decided in his favor, his legal justification is not matter of dispute, and his adversaries put themselves hopelessly in the wrong by reviewing the termination of the book, when it appeared elsewhere, in a strain of virulent but clumsy ridicule. As to where the right or wrong lay, independent of questions of pure law on one side and poor taste on the other, it is not so easy to come to any conclusion. Balzac published an elaborate justification of his own conduct, which does not now appear with the book, but may be found, by any one who is curious, among the rejected prefaces which fill a large part of the twenty-second volume (the third of the uvres Diverses) of his Works. It is exceedingly long, not by any means temperate, and so confused that it is difficult to make head or tail of it. What is clear is that the parties went on the dangerous and unsatisfactory plan of neither complete performance of the work before payment nor complete payment beforehand, but of a per contra account, the author drawing money as he wanted it, and sending in copy as be could or chose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."