The Penguin Book of Women Poets

Arranges the poetic work of over three thousand five hundred years into historical and cultural traditions and gives a brief biographical note on each poet.

The Penguin book of women poets

Literature & Fiction

Carol Cosman

Poetry

Allen Lane.

<p><strong>The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer.</strong></p> Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he is who he says he is; secondly to get his wife to admit to his identity and thereby give up some of her wealth. Once the lawyer believes Chabert's story, the wife must be made to part with his pension...

Colonel Chabert

Biographies & Memoirs

Honoré de, Balzac

Leaders & Notable People

New Directions

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