Volume 2 of 2. Honore de Balzac was considered the greatest novelist of France and was the founder of the realistic novel. His novels sought to demonstrated the molding effect of social environment on the raw material of human personality. His novels have more than 2.000 characters from all phases of contemporary life. In this volume, the reader will find the following works: The Chouans: Ambuscade, Notion of Fouche's, Day Without a Morrow; Passion in the Desert; The Gondreville Mystery: Trials of the Police, Corentin's Revenge, Political Trial in the Time of the Empire; Muse of the Department. Illustrated.
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A literary feast,
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Balzac guided European fiction away from the overriding influence of Walter Scott and the Gothic school, by showing that modern life could be recounted as vividly as Scott recounted his historical tales, and that mystery and intrigue did not need ghosts and crumbling castles for props. Maupassant, Flaubert and Zola were writers of the next generation who were directly influenced by him, and Marcel Proust (that other weaver of a great tapestry) acknowledged his influence.
He is worth reading for pleasure as well as for his influence on European literature.
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- The Chouans (Penguin Classics) by Honoré de Balzac on page 3, page 4, and page 7
- Leone Leoni by George Sand on page 706
- Le Colonel Chabert (Le Livre de Poche) by Honore De Balzac on page 7
- Colonel Chabert (Hesperus Classics) by Honore de Balzac on page 7
- Rob Roy (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott on page 420
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