In Restoration Besançon, the brilliant lawyer Albert Savarus works to make himself a deputy for the sake of a distant woman he loves. Rosalie de Watteville, a sheltered heiress, becomes obsessed with him, reads his letters and his thinly veiled story Ambition for Love’s Sake, and sets out to destroy his hopes.
A compact, intensely plotted Balzac tale of provincial ambition and obsession. Download the free EPUB.