The Girl With the Golden Eyes - Honore de Balzac - Books - Independently Published - 9798648453319 - June 1, 2020
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The Girl With the Golden Eyes

One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and contorted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity? What is it they want?

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 1, 2020
ISBN13 9798648453319
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 72
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 4 mm   ·   190 g
Language English  

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