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100 1 _aBalzac, Honoré de,
_d1799-1850
245 1 4 _aThe Firm of Nucingen
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1998
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Nucingen
500 _aRelease date is 1998-04-01
508 _aProduced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger
520 _a"The Firm of Nucingen" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1837. Four journalists gather in a Parisian restaurant and discuss how the once-poor Eugène de Rastignac acquired his fortune. The tale reveals the cunning financial schemes of Baron de Nucingen, a powerful banker who manipulates stock prices and orchestrates fake bankruptcies to enrich himself. Through strategic partnerships with well-connected men like Rastignac, Nucingen builds his empire while some investors prosper and others face ruin. Balzac crafts a sharp satire of nineteenth-century financial speculation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
700 1 _aWaring, James
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1294
999 _c43410
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