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Honore de Balzac
Marriage Contract

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The short novel The Marriage Contract is part of the Scenes From Private Life section of Honore de Balzac’s epic masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. It delves directly into the question of the nature of marriage, which was rapidly evolving during the period. Kind-hearted bachelor Paul de Manerville becomes deeply smitten with the comely Natalie Evangelista and wants to marry for love, but Natalie and her scheming mother have their eyes on his vast fortune.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 159 ● ISBN 9781776539314 ● Translator Katharine Prescott Wormeley ● Publisher The Floating Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3317604 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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