{"product_id":"2940148733850","title":"La Maison du Chat-qui-Pelote (At the Sign of the Cat and Racket) [French English Bilingual Edition]","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFirst entitled Glory and Unhappiness, this short novel (La Maison du Chat-Qui-Pelote) appeared in 1830 (written in 1829), and subsequently edited several times. Opening the series of Private Life (Scènes de la Vie Privée), it is also the first volume of Comédie Humaine and announces many of the Balzac's later themes.\u003cbr\u003eThe novel's main theme is one of mésalliance : A misfit in marriage. An artist (a painter), Théodore, falls in love with, or with the idea of what he takes for, Augustine, the daughter of a conservative cloth merchant. The marriage turns to be a most unhappy one, where the misfit in marriage reveals itself more as a misfit in minds and souls than a misfit of rank or social standing as it is generally conceived, and ends in a tragic way.\u003cbr\u003eIn the novel Balzac depicts scrupulously a Parisian neighborhood that he knows well, the Petit Lion street and neighborhood of Saint Denis street, where he lived in his youth work period.\u003cbr\u003eThe novel itself depicts a situation for the first time: there are simply milieus that don't mix up, both in real terms, but also figuratively. This idea may be seen as an important step towards the realization that the marriage can no longer be defined on the basis of roles that husbands and wives fulfill, if a moral has to be stated for this work of Balzac. A similar theme can be found in Le Bal de Sceaux of Balzac.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProject Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.\u003cbr\u003eFurthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.\u003cbr\u003eWolf Pup Books\u003cbr\u003eA Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company","brand":"Wolf Pup Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165039313136,"sku":"2940148733850","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148733850_p0.jpg?v=1763707315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148733850","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}