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    The Lily of the Valley
    The Lily of the Valley
    The Lily of the Valley
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    The Lily of the Valley

    By Katharine Prescott Wormeley and Honoré de Balzac

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1965
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    • 4/5
      Traumatized boy (probably Balzac himself) falls in love with a married woman who could be as old as his mother. Fate parts them from each other but he tries to make up with her daughter after his lover's death...
    • 5/5
      Beautiful and strange, a sentimental parenthesis in the "Human Comedy", this book was inspired by Balzac's own romantic love triangle which he was working through at the time. The book has a very interesting, very curious structure. An epistolary novel of sorts, it's constructed by the triptych of three letters, one book length one flanked by two short notes. The bulk of the book is contained in the second "letter", a long, passionate retelling of the writer's experience locked in indecision between the love of two starkly different women.A very humorous ending, by the way!

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