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100 1 _aBalzac, Honoré de,
_d1799-1850
245 1 0 _aScenes from a Courtesan's Life
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendeurs_et_mis%C3%A8res_des_courtisanes
500 _aRelease date is 2005-08-26
508 _aProduced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, John Bickers, and David Widger
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrance -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
700 1 _aWaring, James
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1660
999 _c43775
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