{"product_id":"the-balzac-collection-volume-liam-ferousse-9798282964141","title":"The Balzac Collection - Volume 10: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour works, four territories, one relentless intelligence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA mysterious stranger boards a storm-threatened ferry from Cadzand to Ostend and is welcomed only by the poor - and then a writer sits alone in a ruined Parisian church and asks what it means, in the modern world, to believe the legend he has just told. A fabric salesman in Paris practices the most demanding of arts: knowing what a customer wants before she does, and supplying it with a precision that leaves her certain the choice was entirely her own. A French soldier lost in the Sahara discovers a sleeping panther in a desert cave, names her Mignonne, and finds himself constructing something that the available categories of feeling cannot quite describe. And in Issoudun, a town in the Berry, two brothers arrive from Paris to save an old man's inheritance from the people systematically stripping it away - and discover that provincial intrigue is as ruthless as any battlefield, and that the brother most equal to it is the one the wars have made capable of anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis tenth volume of the Balzac Collection brings together \u003ci\u003eJesus Christ in Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGaudissart II\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Passion in the Desert\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Bachelor's Household\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - four works from \u003ci\u003eLa Comédie humaine\u003c\/i\u003e that demonstrate, in their range of register and subject, why Balzac's project remains unlike anything else in the nineteenth century: not a survey of French society but a reckoning with it, conducted with a honesty about human nature that neither sentimentality nor cynicism was permitted to soften.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are not comfortable works. They are complete ones.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liam Ferousse,Honoré de Balzac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798282964141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Liam Ferousse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097148236031,"sku":"9798282964141","price":14.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-balzac-collection-volume-liam-ferousse-9798282964141","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}