Project Gutenberg 1998-10-01 Public domain in the USA. 98 Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 Balzac, Honore de Saint-Aubin, Horace de De Balzac, Honoré Balzac, H. de (Honoré de) Wormeley, Katharine Prescott 1830 1908 A Daughter of Eve Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger "A Daughter of Eve" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel written in the early to mid-19th century. The story delves into the lives of two sisters, Marie-Angelique and Marie-Eugenie de Granville, as they navigate the constraints of their upbringing under a strict mother and explore the complexities of love, marriage, and societal expectations. Through their experiences, Balzac paints a vivid picture of the societal norms and challenges faced by women of their time. At the start of the novel, the two sisters are depicted in a lavishly decorated boudoir, emotionally distressed and confiding in one another. The narrative establishes their background, revealing the rigid religious education and suffocating domestic life imposed by their mother, the Comtesse de Granville. Despite their innocence, the sisters yearn for independence and happiness as they prepare for marriage—an event both joyous and terrifying. This initial scene sets the stage for their contrasting futures as they marry into vastly different social circumstances, highlighting the themes of love, ambition, and the quest for personal fulfillment within the societal constraints of the era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en French fiction -- Translations into English PQ Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 308637 308646 2024-09-01T09:53:41.702118 2023-10-01T09:02:29.172313 text/html text/html 315364 2021-01-27T19:42:53 text/html; charset=utf-8 109585 2021-01-27T19:42:53 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 160164 2024-09-01T09:53:46.954131 application/epub+zip 163983 2024-09-01T09:53:43.139103 application/epub+zip 163983 2024-09-01T09:53:42.306121 application/epub+zip 305931 2024-09-01T09:53:49.989065 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291203 2024-09-01T09:53:46.380109 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 291297 2022-09-01T11:09:58.783472 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 266527 266491 2024-09-01T09:53:41.248131 2023-10-01T09:02:28.767301 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 269649 2016-11-22T10:15:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 103894 2016-11-22T10:16:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 266400 2014-11-28T08:31:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 103447 2014-11-28T08:32:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20956 2024-09-01T09:53:50.128059 application/rdf+xml 13634 2024-09-01T09:53:42.659123 image/jpeg 3504 2024-09-01T09:53:42.482103 image/jpeg 158455 2024-09-01T09:53:41.729132 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia