{"product_id":"french-lit-pere-goriot-balzac-a-day-in-the-country-maupassant-free-shipping","title":"French Lit–Père Goriot Balzac \u0026 A Day in the Country Maupassant, FREE SHIPPING","description":"\u003cspan id=\"docs-internal-guid-87f5de28-7fff-bbd2-5009-6c2bd26c3a4d\"\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003e\n   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.\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n  \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"\u003e\n   Books Included in This Lot (as shown in photo):\n  \u003c\/span\u003e\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cul style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;\"\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Burton Raffel, edited by Peter Brooks (A Norton Critical Edition)\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     - One of the supreme masterpieces of French realist fiction and a cornerstone of Balzac's monumental\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     La Comédie Humaine\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     . 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.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli aria-level=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;\"\u003e\n   \u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:18pt;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     A Day in the Country and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant, translated by David Coward (Oxford World's Classics)\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; text-wrap-mode: wrap;\"\u003e\n     - 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.\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\n   \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n","brand":"Book Lots","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48581309071592,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/2062\/1032\/files\/10_e1ce9554-6038-4b69-b319-829d00f5c8d0.png?v=1779472660","url":"https:\/\/www.book-lots.com\/products\/french-lit-pere-goriot-balzac-a-day-in-the-country-maupassant-free-shipping","provider":"Book Lots","version":"1.0","type":"link"}