Project Gutenberg 2004-08-11 Public domain in the USA. 248 Balzac, Honoré de 1799 1850 Balzac, Honore de Saint-Aubin, Horace de De Balzac, Honoré Balzac, H. de (Honoré de) Marriage, Ellen 1865 1946 Garrett, Ellen Eve and David Lost Illusions Part III. Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger "Eve and David" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel written in the early 19th century, specifically as part of Balzac's larger work "Lost Illusions." This book follows the lives of David Sechard and his wife Eve, focusing on their struggles in the printing industry and the challenges they face due to the ambitions of David’s brother-in-law, Lucien, who has gone to Paris in pursuit of literary fame. As David works to invent a method for producing cheap paper to secure a better future for Eve and Lucien, the couple is pulled into a web of economic and social struggles. The opening of "Eve and David" introduces us to David Sechard, who aspires to create a fortune for his wife and brother-in-law. After marrying Eve, David grapples with economic hardship and mounting debts while obsessed with solving the pressing problem of cheap paper production. Meanwhile, Eve takes a proactive stance to support their household by learning the intricacies of the printing business. The couple's optimism clashes with external pressures from competing printers and the encroaching failures of their family. As Eve begins to understand their precarious financial situation, tension mounts with the return of Lucien’s disastrous news from Paris, setting the stage for a narrative steeped in ambition, sacrifice, betrayal, and the trials of marriage. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en French fiction -- Translations into English PQ Text Category: Novels Category: French Literature 505187 2025-08-01T10:34:21.381013 text/html 501859 2025-02-16T10:45:08 text/html 245553 2025-08-01T10:34:28.625916 application/epub+zip 255854 2025-08-01T10:34:23.334961 application/epub+zip 255854 2025-08-01T10:34:22.130941 application/epub+zip 428117 2025-08-01T10:34:32.368884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 418088 2025-08-01T10:34:27.892916 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 381436 2022-09-01T11:53:03.309383 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 447797 2025-08-01T10:34:20.560970 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 428034 2025-02-16T10:45:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 439637 2010-02-27T08:01:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21532 2025-08-01T10:34:32.513891 application/rdf+xml 11934 2025-08-01T10:34:22.643948 image/jpeg 3143 2025-08-01T10:34:22.381933 image/jpeg 169767 2016-11-22T10:28:38 application/octet-stream application/zip 177271 2021-01-27T18:40:49 application/octet-stream application/zip 168845 2010-02-27T08:03:00 application/octet-stream application/zip 241185 2025-08-01T10:34:21.420968 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia More titles under Waring, James en.wikipedia