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  <title><![CDATA[The Girl with the Golden Eyes (The Art of the Novella)]]></title>
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  <default-description>She belongs to that feminine variety which the Romans call fulva, flava--the woman of fire. And in chief, what struck me the most, what I am still taken with, are her two yellow eyes, like a tiger's, a golden yellow that gleams, living gold, gold which thinks, gold which loves, and is determined to take refuge in your pocket.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1974</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Girl With The Golden Eyes</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Honoré de Balzac]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Balzac, there is no man knows crimes of passion like you!  <br/><br/>The vice of passion is one of Balzac's favorite themes, and he writes on it brilliantly in this book.  In this work, the vice in question is Lesbianism, for which Pacquita pays fittingly by dying at the hands of her  jealous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48859302">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 04 00:59:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Balzac first, when I was very young, and I enjoyed the stories very much. The second time was when I became interested in history. That was even better. One (who?) has said that ”for better understanding France in 19. century, you’d better read Balzac”. He is the auther of ”Studies of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/561952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34206349">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[History Buffs for the first half of the book....writers....]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a really weird composition. It starts out, the authors description of Paris in the years ????. He describes various sets of people who inhabit Paris, how they spend their days, what their pluses and minuses in his eyes are.  This description must go on for about half of the book, and i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34206349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48956232">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just didn't &quot;get it.&quot;  A short book, but at points I could not follow the story and at points I found it innane &amp; insane.  Some points I did enjoy the detailed descriptions of the various characters that make up Paris or the detail of a room.  But at the end, my thoguh was just - Huh?]]></body>
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    <review id="69408469">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice sweet story...<br/>I was a teenage girl when I read it!It had a great influence on me.The scenes were incredibly tangible &amp; professionally figured out!<br/>An extra-ordinary beautiful girl with a lot of lovers who was killed by her own brother...]]></body>
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    <review id="39811574">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hey Beavis. Balzac.  Balzzzac.  Ballsack.  Heh heh.  Heh.]]></body>
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    <review id="16282225">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The description of Parisian life in the mid-nineteeth century went on and on.  Well written, it nevertheless made one impatient to get on with the story if there was to be one.  The following description of Henri's clandestine meetings with Paquita were apparently shocking when first published, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16282225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15734466">
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    <body><![CDATA[This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes the works of Anton Chekhov, Colette, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Leo Tolstoy. These collectible editions are the first single-volume publications of these classic tales, offering a closer look at this underappreciated literary form ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15734466">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71124188">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[did not finish - too drab]]></body>
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