Sinópse: Excerpt from Beatrix: The Jealousies of a Country Town, and the Commission in Lunacy The contrast Of the two ladies is also fine; indeed, Beatrix seems to me, though by no means Balzac’s most perfect work, to be an attempt in a higher style of novel writing than any other heroine of his. It is impossible not to suspect in Félicité, good, clever, and so forth as she is, a covert satire on the variety of womankind which had begun to be fashion able. The satire On the unamiable side of mere womanliness which the sketch of Beatrix contains is, of course, Open and undeniable. I think that Thackeray has far excelled it, but I am not certain that he was not indebted to it as a pat tern. The fault Of the French Beatrix has been expressed by her creator on nearly the last page of the book. A woman sans occur ml tete may do a great deal of mischief; but she cannot quite play the part attributed to Madame dc ‘roche fide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.