The Black Sheep

Formerly an aide-de-camp to Napoleon but now without prospects, Phillippe Bridau and his younger brother Joseph, a shiftless artist, become entangled in a struggle to recover the family inheritance in a world where "to be without money is to be without power."

• Author
• Honoré de Balzac, Donald Adamson

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 339

• Series
• La Comédie Humaine

• Publisher
• Penguin Classics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-044237-3

• EAN
• 9780140442373

• Characters
• Agathe Rouget, Philippe Bridau, Joseph Bridau, Jean-Jacques, Max Gilet

• Genres
• classics, fiction, france, literature, novels, historical

• Release date
• 1976