Contes de Balzac (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Contes de BalzacThis activity began when he was fourteen. He already knew his own heart, and had pondered on many of the mysteries of life. Now, in a happier time, in that sunny valley of the Loire, surrounded by wealth and love, guarded and petted by a mother and sister, he learned the more open features of the world. For a while he was instructed by tutors at his father's house in Tours, but between 1814 and 1816 he attended private schools in Paris, whither the family had moved temporarily. Then he spent three not unfruitful years in law offices, picking up the types and the phraseology which make his books so strong in describing legal proceedings.When he came of age his father unfolded to him a scheme of purchasing a fine law practice and settling down in that profession. Honoré rebelled, and pleaded to be allowed to try his chances of living by literature, and to lead his own life. With a good sense which is wholly modern in this connection, his father yielded, and the young man was established, by April of 1819, in a Parisian attic, living frugally and in perfect solitude, and writing with fiery zeal. There are in nearly all Balzac's letters a sweet, good - natured way of taking hard ships, and a boyish frankness in discussing himself and his work, which are very winning, and particularly at this period Dans un grenier, à vingt ans.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.