Gobseck by Honoré de Balzac

"Gobseck" by Honoré de Balzac is a novella written in 1830. Set during the French Restoration, it tells the story of Anastasie de Restaud, an aristocrat trapped in a loveless marriage who turns to the cunning moneylender Gobseck for financial help. As her affair and reckless spending spiral out of control, she becomes entangled in debts and schemes that threaten to destroy her family. This tale explores the corrupting power of money through the lens of a mysterious usurer who is both petty miser and philosophical observer of human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Translator Marriage, Ellen, 1865-1946
Title Gobseck
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobseck
Credits Produced by Dagny, and Bonnie Sala, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French fiction -- Translations into English
Category Text
EBook-No. 1389
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jan 27, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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