Balzac – Le Cabinet des Antiques – French & English Editions – French Vocabulary & French Grammar thru Paragraph-by-Paragraph Translation (Comedie Humaine t. 37) (French Edition)

Le Cabinet des Antiques (The Collection of Antiquities, aka The Gallery of Antiquities)
(Les Rivalites – Deuxieme Histoire)
by Honore de Balzac
Balzac is a prime novelist who wrote in French, and his work has influenced famous French authors such as Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, and Gustave Flaubert, as well as foreign language authors such as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino. Many of Balzac’s works have been made into or inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration.

The paragraph-by-paragraph translation series is a continuing project making available great original French writers’ texts along with their English translation. We believe that 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. Furthermore, 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.

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