Colonel Chabert

Honoré de Balzac

earliest edition we have, 1964 New Directions, 1997 101 pages

Fu Lei yi wen ji — book 1

Balzac once referred to art as "nature concentrated." And nowhere did his own art achieve such a rarefied state as in Colonel Chabert - one of the celebrated "Scenes from Private Life" from La Comedie Humaine. Chabert is among Balzac's most tragic heroes: a decorated Napoleonic War veteran believed to have been killed in battle. Severely disfigured, the Colonel, returns to Paris as if risen from the grave. There he...

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Editions we hold

Colonel Chabert paperback · 2006 · Hard Press · 58 pages · 9781406951288
Colonel Chabert paperback · 2003 · IndyPublish.com · 112 pages · 9781404346291
Colonel Chabert hardcover · 2003 · IndyPublish.com · 112 pages · 9781404346284
Colonel Chabert (Hesperus Classics) paperback · 2003 · Hesperus Press · 112 pages · 9781843910374
Colonel Chabert paperback · 2001 · Blue Unicorn Editions · 250 pages · 9781583963098
Colonel Chabert edition · 1997 · New Directions · 101 pages
Colonel Chabert paperback · 1964 · French & European Pubns · 9780685583418

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