Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac

"Letters of Two Brides" by Honoré de Balzac is an epistolary novel serialized in 1841 and published in 1842. Through exchanged letters spanning twelve years, two young French women who became friends in a convent navigate vastly different paths after leaving religious life. Louise pursues romance and passion in Parisian society, while Renée chooses pragmatic marriage and devotion to family in Provence. Their contrasting philosophies on love, happiness, and a woman's purpose unfold through intimate correspondence, revealing conflicting visions of fulfillment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Translator Scott, R. S.
Uniform Title Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées. English
Title Letters of Two Brides
Note Translation of: Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_de_deux_jeunes_mari%C3%A9es
Credits Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 77.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Married women -- Fiction
Subject Epistolary fiction
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject French fiction -- Translations into English
Category Text
EBook-No. 1941
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Apr 4, 2013
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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