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The Lily of the Valley

If you like your tales of tragic love to come with a stiff dose of historical realism, get ready to savor this classic from French writer Honore de Balzac. The Lily of the Valley tells the tale of star-crossed lovers Felix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf. Will social conventions keep them apart, or will they say goodbye to the trappings of the French aristocracy to live together? Pick up this must-read romance to find out.

system well under way, the estate of Clochegourde, divided into four great farms,
two of which still needed new houses, was capable of bringing in forty thousand
francs a year, ten thousand for each farm, not counting the yield of the vineyards,
and the two hundred acres of woodland which adj oined them, nor the profits of
the model home-farm. The roads to the great farms all opened on an ... The fear, "
If I die to-morrow what will become of them?" made her heart beat. The gentle ...

The Lily of the Valley

Valley. begins. I went with lagging step, looking back at every minute. When, from
the summit of the hill, I saw the valley for the last time I was struck with the
contrast it presented to what it was when I first came there. Then it was verdant,
then it glowed, glowed and blossomed like my hopes and my desires. Initiated
now into the gloomy secrets of a family, sharing the anguish of a Christian Niobe,
sad with her sadness, my soul darkened, I saw the valley in the tone of my own
thoughts.