Selected Short Stories
by de Balzac, Honore
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014310487X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143104872
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The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- Bookseller
- Mystery Cove Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166694
- Title
- Selected Short Stories
- Author
- de Balzac, Honore
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New trade paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014310487X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143104872
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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