Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Paperback)

from smichaelwilson

The third book of Balzac's La Comédie Humaine, Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary tale told in the letters between two young women after leaving their convent. The correspondence between the two women details their diverging attitude and philosophies towards marriage and love, with one seekin...

from jonfaith

Doubt is a duel fought within the soul, which causes horrid self-inflicted wounds.This epistolary novel is often dismissed as light melodrama but I was engaged by it as a dialogue on the ambitions of marriage and maternity. The titular brides struggle in terms of maintenance and identity. This is...

from jonfaith

Doubt is a duel fought within the soul, which causes horrid self-inflicted wounds.This epistolary novel is often dismissed as light melodrama but I was engaged by it as a dialogue on the ambitions of marriage and maternity. The titular brides struggle in terms of maintenance and identity. This is...

from stillatim

Morris Dickstein writes, in his introduction, that this book is "not exactly a masterpiece." But really it is not even remotely a masterpiece. Balzac excels in writing about external events pushing people in directions they don't want to go. Epistolary novels are good at giving authors a way to f...

from DinadansFriend

An epistolary novel of two women educated in the same convent. one , is independently wealthy and finally gives up her society life for supporting a younger poet, who finally, exploits her for the sake of his sister in law. the other becomes a staid mother, who eventually aids a geay deal in the ...