TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Marriage,Ellen TI - Lost Illusions AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_perdues; Release date is 2004-08-11; Two Poets -- A Distinguished Provincial at Paris -- Eve and David; Produced by Dagny; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Lost Illusions" by Honoré de Balzac is a serial novel written between 1837 and 1843. Young Lucien Chardon leaves provincial France for Paris, driven by ambition and literary dreams. In the capital's glittering but treacherous world of journalism and high society, he faces impossible choices between artistic integrity and success. As he becomes entangled with actresses, journalists, and aristocrats, Lucien discovers that talent alone cannot protect him from betrayal, corruption, and his own desperate compromises. His journey exposes the harsh realities behind literary fame and social climbing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13159 ER -