{"product_id":"a-woman-of-thirty-isbn-9798896230502","title":"A Woman of Thirty","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodrama—the story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet thirty when she becomes infatuated with Victor d’Aiglemont, a handsome young aide-de-camp in Napoleon’s army. Nor is she yet thirty when she becomes Madame d’Aiglemont—and discovers she has made a great mistake in marrying a careless, insensitive boor. When Julie falls in love with the Englishman Arthur Grenville, a chance at happiness seems to be within reach. But Julie’s conscience as a wife and her duties as a mother forbid her from pursuing and consummating her love, and Arthur dies, leaving her with a broken heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, at thirty, with nothing to look forward to and only the rest of her life ahead of her, Julie is at a loss. Then the dashing Charles de Vandenesse enters her life, whereupon Julie realizes that she is still capable of loving and being loved, but that her relationship with her children, with her daughter Hélène, in particular, may never be the same again…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of serendipitous encounters, twists and turns as delicious as they are unexpected, \u003ci\u003eA Woman of Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e is one of Balzac’s finest novels, at once a moving tale of passion and regret and a sensitive portrait of female psychology, rendered here in Jeanine Herman’s exquisite new translation.\u003cb\u003eHonoré de Balzac\u003c\/b\u003e (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most  influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège  Vendôme and the Sorbonne. Always working under an  extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in  the course of his last twenty years. NYRB Classics publishes Balzac’s \u003ci\u003eThe Human Comedy: Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Golden Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lily in the Valley, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Masterpiece.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanine Herman\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of French literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and art criticism. She has translated works by Julien Gracq, Pierre Clastres, Jean Genet, Francis Ponge, Julia Kristeva, among others. Her translation of Julien Gracq’s \u003ci\u003eReading Writing\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. She is a chevalier in the French Order of Arts and Letters.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232903278821,"sku":"NP9798896230502","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798896230502.jpg?v=1773168022","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-woman-of-thirty-isbn-9798896230502","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}