TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
AU  - Waring,James
TI  - Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
KW  - French fiction -- Translations into English
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendeurs_et_mis%C3%A8res_des_courtisanes; Release date is 2005-08-26; Produced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, John Bickers, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Scenes from a Courtesan's Life" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published between 1838 and 1847. This dark tale follows ambitious poet Lucien de Rubempré and the cunning escaped convict Vautrin as they scheme to elevate Lucien into Parisian high society. When Lucien falls for courtesan Esther van Gobseck, Vautrin manipulates her beauty to extract money from an obsessed banker. But their intricate plans spiral toward tragedy as love, suicide, and police scrutiny entangle everyone in a web of secrets and compromising letters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1660
ER  -