In the provincial town of Angoulême, the handsome young poet Lucien Chardon and his friend David Séchard, a printer’s son with an inventor’s mind, share dreams of greatness. Lucien is taken up by the cultivated Madame de Bargeton, while David falls in love with Lucien’s sister Eve, and both find out what ambition costs.
The opening novel of the sequence known as Lost Illusions, first published on its own in 1837. Download the free EPUB.