A Harlot High and Low
22 hrs. 13 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Honoré de Balzac
Author
Honoré de Balzac
Narrator
Inna Sytnik
Narrator
Inna Sytnik
Description
Balzac's novel A Harlot High and Low occupies a central place in the Human Comedy, that true epic of French society in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The novel was written by the author over more than ten years (1836–1847) and was initially published in newspapers in separate chapters, which accounts for its division into short, sharply plotted episodes with intriguing endings. The main thread of the novel—the pure and sublime love of the courtesan Esther for the ambitious and weak young man Lucien, who will stop at nothing to be accepted into high society and is ready to sacrifice everything for it—is interwoven with numerous subplots in which conflicts also arise between true values and the passion for gain, vanity, baseness, and deception. Knowledge of the human heart and the high craftsmanship of a realist writer make this novel compelling for the modern reader as well.
The novel was written by the author over more than ten years (1836–1847) and was initially published in newspapers in separate chapters, which accounts for its division into short, sharply plotted episodes with intriguing endings. The main thread of the novel—the pure and sublime love of the courtesan Esther for the ambitious and weak young man Lucien, who will stop at nothing to be accepted into high society and is ready to sacrifice everything for it—is interwoven with numerous subplots in which conflicts also arise between true values and the passion for gain, vanity, baseness, and deception. Knowledge of the human heart and the high craftsmanship of a realist writer make this novel compelling for the modern reader as well.
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