The Firm Of Nucingen

This novella is a story told as a conversation between four "cormorants" (the metaphor is Balzac's) who sit and drink in a private room while their talk is overheard through the paper-thin partition and reported to us by Balzac himself (or a fictional representative of the writer). As in all of Balzac's tales of financial trickery, the machinations are incredibly involved and complex yet their effects are devastating...

• | Author: Honoré de Balzac, James Waring
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 74 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1545347247
• | ISBN-13: 9781545347249