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Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac

One of the last of the 94 works of Honoré de Balzac’s Human Comedy. Cousin Pons is a small-time musician and big-time collector of objets d’art. Because he is devoted to and jealous of his collection, he lives in poverty – his only pleasure is gastronomy. He is in the habit of dining with his wealthy friends and benefactors, but over the years he gets less and less welcome at their tables, and eventually he is insulted and dismissed by his cousins, who have no idea he owns an enviable treasure. He has one friend, Schmücke, who is, indeed, a schmuck – an utter innocent who loves Pons but can hardly help him against the vultures who gather once the news of his wealth emerges. Most of the novel describes Pons’s decline toward death as everyone but Schmücke and a couple of people from the theatre where he works scheme to steal, defraud, and murder.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 536
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1984
• Grey Cloth Hardback, 320 pp
• Lithographs by Shirley Hughes
• Size 225 x 140mm, 850g

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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