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 |
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| 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 | Oct 1, 1999 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 4, 2013 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 517 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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