History of the Thirteen
Balzac, Honoré de / Hunt, Herbert![History of the Thirteen](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/923/9237825/CHSBZCOP039237825.jpg)
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, however, the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyed by...