Patricia
09-15-2007, 03:27 PM
Honoré de Balzac: A Second Home
(Une double famille)
Translated by Clara Bell
(Also translated as ‘A Double Family’, ‘A Second Family’ etc.)
A novella of about 26,100 words.
A rising young Parisian lawyer meets an embroideress; they set up home and live in amity, producing two children. Then his father encourages him to marry a frigid religious bigot and he is very unhappy. What will happen when the two families become aware of each other?
I have added a picture, restored accents and reformatted the PG text file.
Incidentally, Balzac spells the family name as ‘Granville’ in some novels and ‘Grandville’ in others.
(Une double famille)
Translated by Clara Bell
(Also translated as ‘A Double Family’, ‘A Second Family’ etc.)
A novella of about 26,100 words.
A rising young Parisian lawyer meets an embroideress; they set up home and live in amity, producing two children. Then his father encourages him to marry a frigid religious bigot and he is very unhappy. What will happen when the two families become aware of each other?
I have added a picture, restored accents and reformatted the PG text file.
Incidentally, Balzac spells the family name as ‘Granville’ in some novels and ‘Grandville’ in others.