La Vendetta (novel)

La Vendetta
Title page of 1897 edition of La Vendetta (illustration by Toudouze)
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
Original titleLa Vendetta
TranslatorKatharine Prescott Wormeley
IllustratorÉdouard Toudouze
LanguageFrench
SeriesLa Comédie humaine
GenreScènes de la vie privée
PublisherMame et Delaunay-Vallée
Publication date
1830
Publication placeFrance
Preceded byAlbert Savarus 
Followed byUne 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.

  1. ^ Furne (1842-48) Archived 2005-10-16 at the Wayback Machine. In Balzac's final arrangement of La Comédie humaine, La Vendetta is the eighth of the Scènes da la vie privée.

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