Comedie Humaine - The Unknown Masterpiece (and Other Stories) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594626210)

The volume of short stories which, in the first complete edition of the Comedie, opens with Les Marana, contains, with that in which La Recherche de l'Absolu leads off, the very finest productions of the author on a small scale; and they now appear together, La Recherche excepted. Almost all the pieces herein contained were early work, written when Balzac was under the combined excitement of his emergence from the valley of the shadow in which he had toiled so long, and of the heat and stress of the political and literary Revolution of 1830...

Author: Honore De Balzac, Honore de Balzac
ISBN-10: 1594626219
ISBN-13: 9781594626210
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2007
Pages: 396
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.81d