The Black Sheep
Honoré de Balzac
339 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140442375
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Language: English
Publish: 209890800000
19th CenturyClassicsFictionFranceFrench LiteratureHistoricalHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
Formerly an aide-de-camp to Napoleon but now without prospects, Phillippe Bridau and his younger brother Joseph, a shiftless artist, become entangled in a struggle to recover the family inheritance in a world where “to be without money is to be without power.”