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    Vendetta
    Vendetta
    Vendetta
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    Vendetta

    By Katharine Prescott Wormeley and Honoré de Balzac

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 18, 2002
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    • 5/5
      The best opening of any Balzac work I have read. And in some of the ensuing scenes, the most wooden melodrama of any Balzac work I have read, especially the scene where Ginevra confesses her love to her father who says she will die before him if she continues down this path. But there are numerous hints of the Balzac to come, most especially in the description of the relationship and backbiting between girls in Monsieur Servin
    • 5/5
      This novella concerns a vendetta between two Corsican families, the daughter of one of whom falls in love with the only surviving son of the other, and is rejected by her own father. They marry against this opposition and have a very tough time and eventually perish - this was quite dramatic and stark and moving.
    • 4/5
      I can sum up this novella for myself (for future reference) as a combination of 'Romeo & Juliet' with O. Henry's 'The Gift of the Magi'. The novella is melodrama and as such doesn't compare to Balzac's greater novels but I thought it deserved more than 3.5*. Maybe 3.7 but such hair-splitting has little value; I only mention it because I don't want others to take my 4* to mean I felt it was equal to most of my other 4* books. If you don't like melodrama, you won't like this. Balzac once again demonstrates his belief that marrying against parental and/or societal wishes is doomed to failure. Yet the portrait of Corsican ideas of vengence and the look at how life changed from 1800 under Napoleon to 1815 under the second restoration was fascinating. This background to the story raised it in my estimation.
    • 3/5
      Readable if melodramatic novella, featuring a hot-blooded Corsican family who have settled in Paris after a bloody culmination to a vendetta back home. The old couple worship their lovely artistic daughter, Ginevra. Then one day she encounters a dashing soldier hiding from royalists in the lumber room at her art school...Not up to the fabulous standard of some of Balzac's novels, but OK.
    • 5/5
      The best opening of any Balzac work I have read. And in some of the ensuing scenes, the most wooden melodrama of any Balzac work I have read, especially the scene where Ginevra confesses her love to her father who says she will die before him if she continues down this path. But there are numerous hints of the Balzac to come, most especially in the description of the relationship and backbiting between girls in Monsieur Servin’s painting class. There is an awful lot of Balzac worth reading before this – but if you’re looking for a short entrée or have read a bunch already, I would recommend this.

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