Books like Modeste Mignon

Another wonderful story from Balzac's La Comedie Humaine, this one deals with money, love and idealised view of artists, which is funny because Balzac is one but in this story poets are put on the spotlight, Lord Byron and others are mentioned but the main of this story is about a girl's fantasy about helping a poet in his work.How can you tell if someone is only after your money? Young girls writing to strangers without parental permission and the Clarissa effect, Balzac knew the importance of this story to include Richardson's classic, mentioned in the letters exchange. Balzac uses a small portion of the story for the letter exchange. I enjoyed the paternal twist in making his daughter chose her mate.The one thing ironic is the father trying to regain his lost wealth by opium trading. I am not sure when opium was deemed addicting and harmful but winning a fortune that loses many unknown persons to a hard to break habit. I wonder if in the conclusion chapter if Balzac intentionally made half of the first part of the chapter, as a kind of teasing the reader before knowing the final ending. What I mean is the mention of the hunt with a list of names who attended, like he was boring us a little. "The first part of this novel was serialised in the Journal des débats in 1844. A revised and expanded version of the work was later published by Chlenowski in two parts under the titles Modeste Mignon and Les Trois amoureux (The Three Suitors). The third and final edition of the novel appeared in 1846 as part of Furne’s complete edition of La Comédie humaine."The story in short- A young girl looks to know and love the heart of a poet, her reading novels has put ideas in her head."The novel begins with the basis of a folktale known as La fille mal gardée (The Ill-Watched Girl), in which a young woman takes a lover despite the close attentions of her guardians, who are determined to preserve her for a more suitable match. Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poetMelchior de Canalis, whose works have filled her with passion. She corresponds with him, but he is unmoved by her attentions."This was in the introduction, I wonder if this was a fan who sent him letters?I wonder...."To a Polish Lady. Daughter of an enslaved land, angel through love, witch through fancy, child by faith, aged by experience, man in brain, woman in heart, giant by hope, mother through sorrows, poet in thy dreams, — to thee belongs this book, in which thy love, thy fancy, thy experience, thy sorrow, thy hope, thy dreams, are the warp through which is shot a woof less brilliant than the poesy of thy soul, whose expression, when it shines upon thy countenance, is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars. De Balzac."I did not read this edition but a collection of his works, I decided on this edition for the cover art."Canalis did not listen to this statement after the opening sentence. The four riders, having now reached a wider road, went abreast and soon reached a stretch of table-land, from which the eye took in on one side the rich valley of the Seine toward Rouen, and on the other an horizon bounded only by the sea. “Butscha was right, God is the greatest of all landscape painters,” said Canalis, contemplating the view, which is unique among the many fine scenes that have made the shores of the Seine so justly celebrated. “Above all do we feel that, my dear baron,” said the duke, “on hunting-days, when nature has a voice, and a lively tumult breaks the silence; at such times the landscape, changing rapidly as we ride through it, seems really sublime."