La Rabouilleuse

In Honoré de Balzac's "La Rabouilleuse", the complex web of ambition, greed, and family loyalty unfolds around the ambitious and cunning Lucien de Rubempré and the manipulative Ferraud family. Centered on the tumultuous relationships among the wealthy Ferraud siblings and their pursuit of social and financial dominance, the novel explores themes of deception, rivalry, and the corrupting influence of money. As characters scheme and betray to secure their positions, Balzac vividly captures the moral ambiguities of 19th-century French society, revealing how greed and ambition threaten to undermine genuine human connections. La Rabouilleuse is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.