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"Collected Works of Honoré De Balzac" contains:
?An aesthetic cover page.
?A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles.
?Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters.
?Nicely organized chapters and text.
Author's works in this collection include:
?AT THE SIGN OF THE CAT AND RACKET
?THE BALL AT SCEAUX
?THE PURSE
?THE VENDETTA
?MADAME FIRMIANI
?A SECOND HOME
?DOMESTIC PEACE
?THE IMAGINARY MISTRESS
?STUDY OF A WOMAN
?ALBERT SAVARUS
?LETTERS OF TWO BRIDES
?A DAUGHTER OF EVE
?A WOMAN OF THIRTY
?THE DESERTED WOMAN
?LA GRENADIÈRE
?THE MESSAGE
?GOBSECK
?A MARRIAGE CONTRACT
?A START IN LIFE
?MODESTE MIGNON
?BEATRIX
?HONORINE
?THE ATHEIST'S MASS
?THE COMMISSION IN LUNACY
?URSULA
?THE CELIBATES
?THE ILLUSTRIOUS GAUDISSART
?AN OLD MAID
?LOST ILLUSIONS
?SCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFE
?A MAN OF BUSINESS
?THE THIRTEEN
?FATHER GORIOT
?RISE AND FALL OF CESAR BIROTTEAU
?THE FIRM OF NUCINGEN
?THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN
?BUREAUCRACY
?SARRASINE
?FACINO CANE
?THE LESSER BOURGEOISIE
?AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY
?AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR
?THE BROTHERHOOD OF CONSOLATION
?Z. MARCAS
?THE DEPUTY OF ARCIS
?THE CHOUANS
Wikipedia on Honoré De Balzac:
Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, Eça de Queirós, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.
An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was an apprentice in a law office, but he turned his back on the study of law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician; he failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.
Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly brought on by scant attention to proper nutrition, strict nightly rest, or daily heart-healthy exercise. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal difficulties, and he ended several friendships over critical reviews. In 1850 he married Ewelina Ha?ska, his longtime love; he died five months later.
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