Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac (GT971)

Circa 1920: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated frontispiece and endpapers

Original red embossed cloth with gilt titles and decoration on the spine. 345 very clean and bright pages, mild speckled foxing on the edges. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time consistent with age. (GT971)

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Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac

Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette , the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.

French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

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