Excerpt from A Harlot's Progress, Vol. 1: Splendeurs Et Misères Des Courtisanes
On the whole, I should put this book a little below Balzac's very best, but in the forefront of his average work. Some I know have rated it very highly; but such a slightly glorified Alphonse as Rubempre is too disgusting a hero to be toler ated without even greater power that Balzac has here put forth, even though Esther to no small extent redeems him.
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