{"product_id":"beatrix-paperback","title":"Beatrix - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatharine Prescott Wormeley\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eHonoré de Balzac\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA handsome young man named Calyste du Gu nic is in love with the older woman, F licit  des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin. F licit  at first does not reciprocate Calyste's feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness B atrix de Rochefide. B atrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to B atrix that \"for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is unexampled, and her efforts to keep her youth and her hold over men are drawn in Balzac's heaviest and most pitiless manner.\" B atrix had already had an affair with Gennaro Conti, and Calyste has an additional rival in the form of Claude Vignon. F licit  des Touches (Camille Maupin) tries to help Calyste win B atrix's heart, thus sacrificing her own. Calyste's efforts are ultimately a failure, and B atrix is taken away by Gennaro Conti. Calyste is devastated by his failure, but promises his dying father to get married. F licit  des Touches enters a convent, but before she does, she uses her fortune to arrange a marriage for Calyste with a woman named Sabine de Grandlieu. When Calyste encounters B atrix again in Paris, his wife Sabine struggles to win back her husband's affections after Calyste falls for B atrix again. Subsequently, through the intercession of Count Maxime de Trailles, B atrix falls for another young man, and Calyste comes to his senses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43786795745415,"sku":"9781545347430","price":19.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/SheBiNzCvJ9781545347430.webp?v=1769626252","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/beatrix-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}