Honoré de Balzac in Twenty-five Volumes: The First Complete Translation Into English; Volume 20 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781172033645)

This is Volume 20 of the first complete English translation of Honoré de Balzac's collected works, presenting a selection of his celebrated novels and stories. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a prominent French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and stories collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which offers a panoramic view of French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy. Balzac is renowned for his complex characters; his fully human figures were often inspired by real people he knew. Balzac was a master of realistic fiction, and his influence is evident in the works of many later novelists.

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