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La Grande Breteche
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Author:
de Balzac, Honore
Translator:
Marriage, Ellen
Translator:
Bell, Clara
Published:
Duke Classics 2014
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ISBN:
9781634213387
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Predating Edgar Allen Poe's remarkably similar story The Cask of Amontillado by more than a decade, Honore de Balzac's chilling tale La Grande Breteche centers on a mysterious manor that sits abandoned in a town in central France. When a physician becomes curious about the estate and begins to question locals about it, he gradually unfurls a horrifying secret.

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