Albert Savarus

Besançon has no use for strangers, at least until the lawyer Albert Savaron shows up. Before anyone realizes it, he's won several cases-including a prominent one for the local diocese-and started a newspaper. Suddenly his name is on everyone's lips, and much of the discussion revolves around why this mysterious lawyer has come to their small town. After reading a novella serialized in his newspaper and intuiting that it's perhaps at least somewhat autobiographical, the daughter of the most prominent woman in Besançon determines that she must penetrate Albert's mystery. What follows is vintage Balzac, where the best-laid plans rarely work out as intended. Perfect for readers who love classic French literature and stories of mysterious strangers shaking up small-town life, this Balzac novella delivers all the psychological insight and social commentary the master is known for. With its intriguing blend of legal drama, romantic intrigue, and the secrets that bind provincial society, "Albert Savarus" showcases Balzac at his most compelling. The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)