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Colonel Chabert

Title
Colonel Chabert / Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Carol Cosman.
Author
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Publication
New York : New Directions, 1997.

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TextRestricted use Berg Coll 22-537Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Cosman, Carol
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Frezzolini, Sylvia
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
101 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert hires a lawyer to obtain justice, but the lawyer is playing a double game--unknown to the colonel he is working for the wife.
Series Statement
  • New Directions paperbook ; 847
  • NDP847
Uniform Title
Colonel Chabert. English
Alternative Title
Colonel Chabert.
Subject
  • 1800-1815
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Veterans > Fiction
  • Justice, Administration of > Political aspects > France > Fiction
  • Justice, Administration of > Political aspects
  • Justice, Administration of
  • Veterans
  • France > Fiction
  • France
Genre/Form
  • Legal fiction (Literature)
  • Fiction.
Note
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Indexed In (note)
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini Severance.
Call Number
Berg Coll 22-537
ISBN
  • 0811213595
  • 9780811213592
LCCN
97010790
OCLC
36672019
Author
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Title
Colonel Chabert / Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Carol Cosman.
Imprint
New York : New Directions, 1997.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 847
NDP847
Indexed In:
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 148
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-537 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Sylvia Frezzolini Severance. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-537 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Chronological Term
1800-1815
Added Author
Cosman, Carol, translator.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Frezzolini, Sylvia, cover designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-537
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