A Start in Life A Start in Life

A Start in Life

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Publisher Description

Much of the action of this short novel takes place in the rickety old stage-coach — or coucou — of Pierrotin, which regularly carries passengers and goods between Paris and Val-d'Oise. On one such trip from Paris, Comte Hugret de Sérizy, a senator and wealthy aristocrat, is travelling incognito in order to investigate reports that Monsieur Moreau, the steward of his country estate at Presles, is being less than honest in his dealings on the count's behalf with a neighbouring landowner Margueron, a piece of whose land the count wishes to buy. Among the count's fellow passengers is Oscar Husson, a young good-for-nothing mummy's boy, who is being sent to a friend of his mother's Monsieur Moreau in the hope that a position can be found for him.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1850
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
152.8
KB

Customer Reviews

Dr. Monshi ,

A star in life

It's perfect. Although Balzac has written this book in 19th century, it is dramatically fresh yet.

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