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Letters to Madame Hanska born Countess Rzewuska afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac 1833-1846 - cover

Letters to Madame Hanska born Countess Rzewuska afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac 1833-1846

Honoré de Balzac

Translator Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Publisher: Good Press

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Summary

The following book is a collection of letter-based correspondence between Ewelina Rzewuska and Honoré de Balzac before their marriage. She married landowner Wacław Hański when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac expressed a deep mutual affection—which is collated in this publication.
Available since: 12/18/2019.
Print length: 715 pages.

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