Cousin Pons

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Cousin Pons
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Cousin Pons

Honoré de Balzac
Edition year 1984
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Shirley Hughes
Translator Herbert J. Hunt
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 322
Dimensions 22.8 × 13.9 cm

Edition details

Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac. Translated and introduced by Herbert J. Hunt. 12 two-colour lithographs by Shirley Hughes. Bound in grey cloth with an illustration in black by Hughes. Pale grey endleaves.. Dark blue slipcase. 22.8x13.9cm. 322pp.

About the book

Honoré de Balzac's Cousin Pons follows Sylvain Pons, an ageing and impoverished musician whose greatest pleasures are fine art, good food and the company of his loyal friend Schmucke. Although Pons possesses little money, he has quietly assembled an exceptionally valuable collection of paintings and works of art. When his wealthy relatives discover the true value of his collection, greed and manipulation begin to surround him. Balzac uses Pons's fate to expose hypocrisy, materialism and the destructive influence of money, creating a moving story of friendship and vulnerability within nineteenth-century Parisian society.

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