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The Red Inn Honore De Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley 9781495213441 Books

The Red Inn by the famed author Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) is a relatively short tale containing two main plots. The first is filled with tension and suspense, the second with struggles over conscience and the issue of morality.

Several people are sitting together listening to a German telling a tale that occurred during the war between France and Germany some thirty years ago, a situation that he partially observed. As he tells the tale, the narrator notices a man in the company becoming more and more agitated. Two Frenchmen came to an Inn and had dinner with a man who overly drunk revealed he had a fortune in gold and diamonds in his satchel. The three sleep in the same room. During the night, one of the two Frenchmen decides to rob the third man. He goes so far as to remove the bars from the hotel so that he can leave, but he changes his mind, goes off for a walk, and then returns to sleep. In the morning the third man is found dead and the second Frenchman is missing. This first Frenchman is suspected of the murder because he removed the bars from the hotel and was seen going to the forest, apparently to hide the stolen fortune.

The narrator is certain that he knows the guilty party, but faces the difficulty that he is in love with the murderer’s daughter and if the murderer dies she will inherit a fortune acquired by the murderer by investing the stolen money. He faces the dilemma: can he marry the daughter of a murderer, can he tell his wife that the father she loved killed a man for the money he has, Can he married to the daughter use the murderer’s money.

He gathers some of his friends who give him advice that readers may find unsatisfactory, just as the narrator found them. For example, his friend who was a lawyer argued that there must be a period of limitations for everything, and after thirty years the statute of limitations has certainly expired. Another suggested solving his problem with a lottery. A priest suggested marrying the girl but not using any of the money obtained by her father through his theft and murder; only use the money she inherited from her mother.

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The Red Inn Honore De Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley 9781495213441 Books Reviews

This is a fascinating short read that it eloquently written and retold in a manner that takes you back to yesteryear when a family would gather around to hear a well retold story. Just as one would during a tale spun from yesteryear, you will probably start figuring out early on what is taking place, therefore you will excitedly be awaiting the surprise unknown to happen! Well, this is the disappointing part and I will leave the rest up to you to discover for yourself. I encourage you to take a short afternoon break to read this FREE story, then be ready to retell or read it straight from your while enjoying a summer evening with your own family gathered around.
This is a very short story--a one-sitting read. I was looking for a more complexly constructed tale. That said, I enjoyed the story. It had some twists I hadn't encountered before. Others have outlined the plot so there is no need to repeat their efforts. This was my first essay into reading Balzac and I will certainly read more of his works.
A young man finds himself in love with a young woman whose father, he is determined to believe, has evil in his heart.
At a dinner party, a tale is told of two young men who are the best of friends. They stay at The Red Inn one night. While dining together at the inn, a rich merchant joins them.
During the night the unthinkable happens. And many years later, the man in love with the woman finds himself facing a moral dilemma.
To get it out of the way, no this is not 113 pages long. Unless it was really big type or small pages. It's 496 locations in length, so around 10-20 normal pages.

It's a well written morality play. The story does a very good job of sucking you, very impressive for the size. It also has one of the best endings I have ever read. Grab the free copy.
Ok, so to give some perspective on the review, I'm not a fan novels about crime... but even though I realized a short way in that this was a book about a crime, I decided to finish it anyway... partly I suppose because I realized it was not a long book, and it seemed a shame to pre-judge the book just because I appreciate other genres better. I do have to say the setup for the story was well done. Setting up an evildoer to hear a tale about his deed was quite interesting. On my reader, I happened to guess what was about to happen the page before it was revealed in the story, and that amused me. From that point on, however, my interest in the tale subsided more and more as I approached the end. The last paragraph drove the last nail into the coffin, and I told my wife... that was a terrible book. I can't "hate it", because the story was indeed masterfully begun, or can I?

How funny that I'm the only "1", and every one else who rated it before was "3" or higher. Obviously you can't take my review seriously... unless you're like me. The literary genius of the artist is appreciable. I can see an English literature teacher lauding it highly. I can vicariously appreciate the masterful story telling. It held me to the middle of the tale. What's my problem then? Well, let me tell you...

I suppose what follows borders on a spoiler, so stop here if you are going to read it, but I can't rate the story this low without giving some mention why the tale drove me to distraction and killed my enjoyment of it. I felt it was bad enough to spend so much time reading about something awful, but then reading about someone else's writhing about in loathing, judgment and self-torture ... ugh... even writing about it drives me nuts... so I have to stop. I mean the more I think about it, the more it drives me nuts to consider the perpetrator never dealing with his wrong to his death, and for the tale's narrator to have the same problem from a different angle just creeps and crawls all over me. At first I totally missed the point of the last sentence, but trying to figure it out led me through all manner mental contortion to figure out what the author meant for me to get through such and obtuse exclamation.

Certainly the character telling the story was an "idiot"... and this was clear to me even though the final sentence was not, but reconciling that sentence with the rest of the story was not fun, and ultimately convinced me I do not like this kind of story. I can vicariously appreciate this literary twists and turns, but they pushed me into the same gnarly, masochistic mess that our perpetrator and narrator bound themselves up with. The story, I see now, reminds me too much of what I dislike in myself, namely that I get into messes, my brain won't let me let go of them, and I end up being the worse for it. Why would I want to read about a fellow that embarks on a lifelong hassle of the kind I cannot bear to endure for a few days? The tale ended in a way that drove me to try to understand what had just happened, and it tied me up in knots just trying to write the review. It fairly convinced me I needed to go read a different book to put this out of my mind.

In the end, forcing myself to finish the review, and summarizing the plot line with my wife helps me to ultimately see how ... interesting ... this story was, and what kind of literary skill was needed to write this kind of story so I find more appreciation for it (though I think the last fourth or so was not great literary work). I wasn't going to rate it a one when I finished it, but I am now convinced that I just cannot say I like this story (even a little bit) just because it demonstrates skill on the part of the author. I read for various reasons, but I don't read to remind me of things that I seem powerless to resolve within myself. When I read, it's the aftertaste, so to speak, that matters. I like to read a story and feel good, challenged, etc., about it later... but life is too full of gnawing aggravation to have the tail end of a work of fiction leave you with even more.

Yes, now I get it, in spades, the narrating character was an idiot for getting all muddled up in the story, and the final sentence of the story was astoundingly apropos... he ruined the last half of his life by getting up in the perpetrator's business... as I ruined what appreciation for the story I had by getting all muddled up with the details of the last sentence (and to a lesser extent, the ?weak? ending). I don't know, maybe I am an idiot, or literary simpleton, for not appreciating this literary composition, but, it is just not my cup of tea. I like to escape through reading, or maybe even be inspired in some way, but this story left me without escape or worthwhile edification. I could probably continue dissecting the story and find something to teach myself from it, but not in a way that encourages, for this story did quite the opposite.

Now don't get this review wrong... I see the statistics of the reviews before mine... you'll probably enjoy it, but I most assuredly did not. Still, probably I needed to read the book, and who knows, perhaps, with time, and God, this is part of my cure?
The Red Inn by the famed author Honore De Balzac (1799-1850) is a relatively short tale containing two main plots. The first is filled with tension and suspense, the second with struggles over conscience and the issue of morality.

Several people are sitting together listening to a German telling a tale that occurred during the war between France and Germany some thirty years ago, a situation that he partially observed. As he tells the tale, the narrator notices a man in the company becoming more and more agitated. Two Frenchmen came to an Inn and had dinner with a man who overly drunk revealed he had a fortune in gold and diamonds in his satchel. The three sleep in the same room. During the night, one of the two Frenchmen decides to rob the third man. He goes so far as to remove the bars from the hotel so that he can leave, but he changes his mind, goes off for a walk, and then returns to sleep. In the morning the third man is found dead and the second Frenchman is missing. This first Frenchman is suspected of the murder because he removed the bars from the hotel and was seen going to the forest, apparently to hide the stolen fortune.

The narrator is certain that he knows the guilty party, but faces the difficulty that he is in love with the murderer’s daughter and if the murderer dies she will inherit a fortune acquired by the murderer by investing the stolen money. He faces the dilemma can he marry the daughter of a murderer, can he tell his wife that the father she loved killed a man for the money he has, Can he married to the daughter use the murderer’s money.

He gathers some of his friends who give him advice that readers may find unsatisfactory, just as the narrator found them. For example, his friend who was a lawyer argued that there must be a period of limitations for everything, and after thirty years the statute of limitations has certainly expired. Another suggested solving his problem with a lottery. A priest suggested marrying the girl but not using any of the money obtained by her father through his theft and murder; only use the money she inherited from her mother.