Product code: Wine of Life A Book on Balzac 1958 online
First Edition Cover has online one flaw. Book is in otherwise great condition Will list as fair to be...fair. It seems to me that Balzac is the greatest novelist the world has produced" states W. Somerset Maughan. That being true, then Charles Gorham, the author of "The Wine of Life" must be given the commensurate title as "The Best Historical Fiction Novelist About the Great Balzac." Never will you find such a scrumptious, more brilliant portrayal of the life of Honoree Balzac. Such a wonderful story, told with all the excesses of passion, intrigue, duplicity of the morales of social manners--- just as relevant today as 200 years ago! Such a tribute to its subject matter! Gorham's "Wine of Life" is as wonderfully written as if the Master Balzac had ghost-written it himself! What a delight is awaiting the reader of this novel! SL.
First Edition Cover has online one flaw. Book is in otherwise great condition Will list as fair to be...fair. It seems to me that Balzac is the greatest novelist the world has produced" states W. Somerset Maughan. That being true, then Charles Gorham, the author of "The Wine of Life" must be given the commensurate title as "The Best Historical Fiction Novelist About the Great Balzac." Never will you find such a scrumptious, more brilliant portrayal of the life of Honoree Balzac. Such a wonderful story, told with all the excesses of passion, intrigue, duplicity of the morales of social manners--- just as relevant today as 200 years ago! Such a tribute to its subject matter! Gorham's "Wine of Life" is as wonderfully written as if the Master Balzac had ghost-written it himself! What a delight is awaiting the reader of this novel! SL.