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by Honoré de Balzac (Author), Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator) "Few persons in the present day know how plain and unpretentious were the dwellings of the burghers of Paris in the sixteenth century, and how..." (more)
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Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). Contains The Calvinist Martyr, The Ruggieri's Secret and The Two Dreams. By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.

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  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Dodo Press (April 28, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1406506192
  • ISBN-13: 978-1406506198
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Drama Galore!, December 19, 2005
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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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