Pamela Giraud

Honoré de Balzac's Pamela Giraud opens in a world where love, class, and reputation collide with devastating force. Pamela, a proud flower-maker living in poverty, refuses to be treated as a prize for Joseph Binet's ambitions, even as his jealous devotion and her family's expectations tighten around her. Her life is thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Jules Rousseau, who appears under the name Adolph Durand and hides in her room, pleading for secrecy and urging her to flee with him to England before a shadowy plot catches up with him. What begins as romantic intrigue quickly becomes a public scandal. Pamela is exposed to family suspicion, police intervention, and the humiliating demands of the powerful Rousseau household, whose members want her to help save Jules by providing a false alibi. Lawyer Dupre, sharp-eyed and pragmatic, sees that the case may depend on social maneuvering as much as law, while General de Verby's evasions hint at a wider conspiracy. Torn between outrage, compassion, and pride, Pamela must decide how much she will sacrifice for love in a drama of secrecy, honor, and class conflict. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

Honoré de Balzac : Tour à tour dramaturge, journaliste et écrivain, il est considéré comme l'une des figures majeures du monde des lettres françaises.
Créateur du roman réaliste moderne, il conçut dès 1833 le grand cycle de la Comédie humaine. Dépensier et excentrique, il vécut criblé de dettes ; amoureux de la vie et des femmes, il se fit remarquer dans les salons mondains et littéraires, et connut de tumultueuses et rocambolesques liaisons. Voyageur infatigable et collectionneur, habité par des projets extravagants, il s'aventura dans des contrées lointaines et souvent inhospitalières.
Il laissera à sa mort, à 51 ans, l'une des plus grandes oeuvres de la littérature mondiale. " Il entre le même jour, dans la gloire et dans le tombeau ", dira Victor Hugo dans l'éloge funèbre qu'il prononça au cimetière du Père-Lachaise.