The Lily in the Valley
Balzac, Honoré de / Bush, Peter / O'Brien, Geoffrey![The Lily in the Valley](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/453/45339955/CHSBZCOP0345339955.jpg)
A new translation of one of Balzac’s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess—a relationship that is upended when he becomes involved with a new lover.A story of baffled and irrepressible desire, Balzac's The Lily in the Valley opens with a scene of desire unleashed. His protagonist, Felix de Vandenesse, the shy teenage scion of an aristocrat...