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Lost Illusions

Honore de Balzac
Modern Library (Penguin Random House) · 721 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score

Lucien leaves Angouleme certain his poems will make him famous in Paris, and finds literature there is a trade in favors and paid reviews. Balzac invented the modern story of selling out.

Medium
Novel
Setting
Paris
Time
1843Depicts Bourbon Restoration (France)

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