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Through bizarre currents of half-truth and half-fiction, the French classic Honoré de Balzac leads the reader through post-Napoleonic France - an era of change, where the author's personal love story is intertwined with the destinies of random people caught up in the whirlwind of events at the turn of European history in the 19th century.
The novel "The Lily of the Valley" and the story "The Vicar of Tours" are the author's most significant texts, included in the cycles "Scenes of Provincial Life" and "Scenes of Rural Life", permeated with sharp realism, religious-mystical themes, intrigues, social upheavals and the struggle for a place in this bizarre world. The author invites the reader to become a participant in intimate dramas that unfold against the backdrop of a grand story.