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A Marriage Contract - cover

A Marriage Contract

Honoré de Balzac

Translator Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

This is the story of an ill-advised marriage between Paul de Manerville and Natalie Evangelista, a spoilt Spanish heiress. Unfortunately for Paul, he is too naive or too blinded by love, or both, to see the manipulative mother-in-law for what she is. The troubles begin from that point.
Available since: 04/10/2021.
Print length: 123 pages.

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