{"product_id":"2940148741190","title":"Le Lys Dans La Vall\u0026eacute;e (The Lily of the Valley) [French English Bilingual Edition]","description":"Le Lys dans la Vallée (The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society, and speficially about the affection between Felix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf.\u003cbr\u003eFelix de Vandenesse is the youngest child of a noble family of Touraine, in Western Central France, whose prospects have gone south under the Revolution and the Napoleon Era. Felix grows up without much love. His mother sends him away to live with a breast-feeder and then to boarding school where he students are treated very badly. During his return home, he attends a party where he instantly falls in love with a married woman, older than him.\u003cbr\u003eThis novel belongs to the Scenes from Provincial Life (Scènes de la Vie de Province) subseries of La Comédie Humaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Bilingual Edition\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":47175061766384,"sku":"2940148741190","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148741190_p0.jpg?v=1763707566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148741190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}