A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entre" into La Comdie Humaine, his series of almost 100 novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization." Reissue.
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entre" into La Comdie Humaine, his series of almost 100 novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization." Reissue.
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entree" into La Comedie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization."
“"The greatest novelist who ever lived."-W. Somerset Maugham ”
"The greatest novelist who ever lived."--W. Somerset Maugham "A man of genius."--Victor Hugo
A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.
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