Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
03.06.2026
Verlag
Waking Lion PressSeitenzahl
56 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1165 KB
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781434112132
A Woman of Thirty is unusual in that the protagonist is thirty years of age in just one of the six vignettes that make up the novel. As the novel opens, Julie is a young girl in her late teenage years. She and her father are going to see Napoleon and his army as they embark on the campaign that ended with his defeat at Leipzig. Julie is in love with a colonel, which is an unpleasant surprise to her father. He warns her of the man's many weaknesses and tells her she's not ready for married life-and definitely not married life with him.
Like most young women of that age, she doesn't listen, and quickly finds herself in a marriage with a man who's not what she imagined. The remaining five vignettes drop in on Julie at various points in her life, showing how she's coping with the realities of her situation: with her husband, her children, and the various others who enter their lives.
The story of Julie d'Aiglemont was a longer project for Balzac than most of the other stories of the Human Comedy: it was written across a span of sixteen years.
Perfect for readers who love sweeping historical fiction and complex character studies, this masterpiece by Balzac traces a woman's journey from youthful passion to mature wisdom against the dramatic backdrop of 19th-century France. With its vivid portrayal of French society and timeless exploration of love, marriage, and personal growth, this classic novel offers both historical richness and deeply human storytelling that resonates across the centuries.
The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)
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