Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Original title | La Vendetta |
Translator | Katharine Prescott Wormeley |
Illustrator | Édouard Toudouze |
Language | French |
Series | La Comédie humaine |
Genre | Scènes de la vie privée |
Publisher | Mame et Delaunay-Vallée |
Publication date | 1830 |
Publication place | France |
Preceded by | Albert Savarus |
Followed by | Une double famille |
La Vendetta (The Vendetta) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the eighth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The novel was first published in 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée. In 1842 it appeared in the first Furne edition of La Comédie humaine. La Vendetta was the fourth work in Volume 1, making it the fourth of the Scènes de la vie privée.[1]
Balzac may have been inspired to write La Vendetta by Prosper Mérimée, whose novel Mateo Falcone, which was serialized by the Revue de Paris in 1829, also deals with the subject of Corsican vengeance and family honour.