French Lit–Père Goriot Balzac & A Day in the Country Maupassant, FREE SHIPPING

An elegantly matched 2-book bundle pairing two titans of 19th-century French literature — Honoré de Balzac and Guy de Maupassant — in two of the most respected scholarly and classic editions available in English translation. This is an ideal lot for university literature students, Francophiles, lovers of European realist fiction, and anyone building a serious home library of world literature. Both titles are staples of French literature courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and hold strong consistent demand on the used academic book market.

Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):

• Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Burton Raffel, edited by Peter Brooks (A Norton Critical Edition) - One of the supreme masterpieces of French realist fiction and a cornerstone of Balzac's monumental La Comédie Humaine . This Norton Critical Edition — the gold standard for university literary study — includes the authoritative Burton Raffel translation alongside critical essays, contextual materials, and scholarly apparatus edited by Peter Brooks of Yale University. Essential for any serious student of European literature.

• A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, translated by David Coward (Oxford World's Classics) - A superb collection of Maupassant's finest short stories in a new translation by David Coward, published in the prestigious Oxford World's Classics series. Maupassant is widely considered the greatest master of the short story form in world literature, and this collection showcases his unrivaled gift for irony, psychological precision, and vivid evocation of 19th-century French life.