2h 55m
At the Sign of The Cat and Racket
Author:
Honore de Balzac (34)
Reader: Narek Baghdasaryan (289)
Category:
Prose (621)
Short novel (95)
French literature (58)
Translator:
T. Kara-Sargsyan (4)
Age Recommendation: 13+
Honoré de Balzac’s short novel, written in 1829, is part of Scenes from Private Life. The artist Théodore de Sommervieux falls in love with Augustine Guillaume, the daughter of a cloth merchant whose house is known as The House of the Cat Playing with a Ball. Both are young and wealthy. It would seem that nothing could stand in the way of their happiness…