Cousin Pons (1847) is a novel by French author Honor??? de Balzac. One of the final works in Balzac's La Com???die humaine sequence, Cousin Pons originally began as a novella before being extended to the length of a novel. It serves as both a beautiful meditation on the nature of Platonic male friendship and a vitriolic condemnation of the vanity and greed of the French bourgeoisie. In typical fashion, however, Balzac also turns a critical eye to the lower class, ensuring his uniquely holistic vision of French society ...
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Cousin Pons (1847) is a novel by French author Honor??? de Balzac. One of the final works in Balzac's La Com???die humaine sequence, Cousin Pons originally began as a novella before being extended to the length of a novel. It serves as both a beautiful meditation on the nature of Platonic male friendship and a vitriolic condemnation of the vanity and greed of the French bourgeoisie. In typical fashion, however, Balzac also turns a critical eye to the lower class, ensuring his uniquely holistic vision of French society spares no one--and leaves no stone unturned. When he isn't performing with a Parisian boulevard orchestra, Sylvain Pons can be found in deep conversation with his good friend Wilhelm Schmucke, admiring his collection of paintings, or enjoying a gourmet meal with his cousins, M. and Mme. Camusot de Marville, whose food he greatly prefers to that of his landlady's, Mme. Cibot. Pons' life and company are of little interest to anyone other than his friend Wilhelm--by family and acquaintances, he is treated at best with tolerance, and at worst with disdain. After failing to find a suitable match for their daughter C???cile--which Pons attempts as a form of repayment for his shared meals with the Camusots--his cousins dispel him from their home and lives for good. But when they discover the value of his art collection--as do Mme. Cibot and several shady characters of the lower classes--a mad scramble ensues that threatens Sylvain Pons' gentle nature as well as his life. Cousin Pons , a subtle and underrated novel by Honor??? de Balzac, takes an unforgiving look at the consequences of greed as well exposes the imbalance between the economic and aesthetic values of art. This edition of Honor??? de Balzac's Cousin Pons is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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Add this copy of Cousin Pons to cart. $7.00, good condition, Sold by Becker's Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Houston, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Street And Smith.
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No Jacket. New York. 1968. Penguin Books. 1st Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. Translated from the French & With An Introduction by Herbert J. Hunt. 334 pages. paperback. L205. The cover shows a detail of ‘The Print Collector' by Daumier, in the Musee du Petit Palais, Paris (Snark International). keywords: Europe France Literature Translated 19th Century Penguin Classic World Literature. DESCRIPTION-COUSIN PONS (1848), one of Balzac's last novels, offers a diametrically opposite view of family relationships from the one he develops in its companion, COUSIN BETTE. Cousin Bette thinks only of destroying the family on whose patronage she has been for so long forced to live: but Cousin Pons is a mild, harmless old man treated with spiteful contempt by hi well-to-do relations. The novel is one of the best examples in the Human Comedy of Balzac's rueful contemplation-pessimistic but not despairing-of human nature, and in the lugubrious account of Pons's physical collapse and death one suspects a presentiment of the fate which was shortly to overtake the author. inventory #28906.
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Very good. No dust jacket. x, 345 p., [3] leaves of plates: ill.; 20 cm Comediehumaine / H. de Balzac. Includes: Illustrations, Plates. Translated from the French. Edition Definitive. "Of this edition, 100 copies have been printed for America, of which this is No. 39" Edited by George Saintsbury. Pages are untrimmed on the bottom and sides, but trimmed and gilt-edged on top. Beige cloth binding. Label on spine has faded. Clean, unmarked copy except for a small bookplate from a previous owner on the pastedown. Eighteen books from this series are available.
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