From the Bookshelf of Never too Late to Read Classics…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Jul 25, 2019
Antonomasia
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
divine-comedy-booklovers,
money-and-business,
j,
1001-books,
france,
2019,
guardian-1000,
19th-century,
francophonie
Penguin Classics edition, translated by Olivia McCannon; introduction by Graham Robb.
I’ve been very impressed with most of the classic authors I read for the first time over the last year, but I’ve got a few reservations about Balzac. In the first two chapters (out of a total four) I found the prose, too often, stodgy and inelegant. There were numerous sentences that could be divided into two or three with no loss of meaning, and it felt as if there were too many words used where fewer could com ...more
I’ve been very impressed with most of the classic authors I read for the first time over the last year, but I’ve got a few reservations about Balzac. In the first two chapters (out of a total four) I found the prose, too often, stodgy and inelegant. There were numerous sentences that could be divided into two or three with no loss of meaning, and it felt as if there were too many words used where fewer could com ...more
Oct 11, 2011
Carolin
marked it as to-read
Nov 25, 2011
Alana
marked it as to-read
Feb 20, 2012
Soni
marked it as to-read
Jan 14, 2017
Justyna
marked it as to-read
Apr 18, 2017
Cristina_shamby
added it
Apr 11, 2020
Jamie
marked it as to-read
