A Harlot High and Low

By Honore de Balzac
Introduction by Rayner Heppenstall
Translated by Rayner Heppenstall

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About A Harlot High and Low

Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which introduces the satanic genius Vautrin, one of the greatest villains in world literature.

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About Honore de Balzac

The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms,… More about Honore de Balzac

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Dec 30, 1970 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780140442328

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