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Analytical Studies

By Honoré de Balzac

2019-06-21 17:34:19

DEDICATION Notice the words: The man of distinction to whom this book is dedicated. Need I say: "You are that man."—THE AUTHOR. The woman who may be induced by the title of this book to open it, can save herself the trouble; she has already rea ... Read more
DEDICATION Notice the words: The man of distinction to whom this book is dedicated. Need I say: "You are that man."—THE AUTHOR. The woman who may be induced by the title of this book to open it, can save herself the trouble; she has already read the work without knowing it. A man, however malicious he may possibly be, can never say about a woman as much good or as much evil as they themselves think. If, in spite of this notice, a woman will persist in reading the volume, she ought to be prevented by delicacy from despising the author, from the very moment that he, forfeiting the praise which most artists welcome, has in a certain way engraved on the title page of his book the prudent inscription written on the portal of certain establishments: Ladies must not enter. Less

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File size444.071 KB
Print pages514
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1374840454
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a pan...

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