Patricia
09-14-2007, 07:03 PM
Honoré de Balzac:The Vendetta
(La Vendetta)
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A short novella of nearly 25,000 words, set among the Corsican community in Paris during the Napoleonic era and early Restoration.
A young Corsican girl meets a proscribed officer under dramatic circumstances, just following the restoration of Louis XVIII, and they fall in love. Unfortunately, their families are in vendetta…
I have added a picture, a TOC and reformatted, replacing some accents and italics.
(La Vendetta)
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
A short novella of nearly 25,000 words, set among the Corsican community in Paris during the Napoleonic era and early Restoration.
A young Corsican girl meets a proscribed officer under dramatic circumstances, just following the restoration of Louis XVIII, and they fall in love. Unfortunately, their families are in vendetta…
I have added a picture, a TOC and reformatted, replacing some accents and italics.