1831
The Unknown Masterpiece
Fiction · 1831
The Unknown Masterpiece
by Honoré de Balzac
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About this copy
A painter spends twenty years on a single portrait no one can see, while the art of his century shifts around him. Balzac’s story about the distance between intention and result.
Condition note
NYRB Classics edition. Unread, jacket pristine, a beautiful small object.
The bibliographic details
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
- Published
- 1831
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 72
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 978-1590170371
- Genre
- Fiction
- Condition
- Fine — Near pristine. No markings, tight spine, bright boards.
Provenance
A gift copy. The giver, we are told, never read Balzac again.
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