Honore de Balzac

French novelist and playwright (1799–1850).

Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
Due 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 multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films and his work has served as a framework for other writers. James called him "really the father of us all."

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The Shorter Stories of Honore de Balzac
2005 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 292 pages · 2 editions
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A Daughter of Eve
2007 · BiblioBazaar · Paperback · 128 pages · 1 edition
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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris: (Lost Illusions Part II)
2007 · BiblioBazaar · Paperback · 362 pages · 1 edition
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A Double Family; The Peace Of The Household; A Study Of Woman; Another Study Of Woman; The Pretended Mistress (1897)
2010 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Hardcover · 400 pages · 1 edition
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A Drama On The Seashore
2004 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 48 pages · 1 edition
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A Father's Curse And Other Stories (1898)
2010 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 364 pages · 1 edition
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A Man Of Business
2004 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 48 pages · 1 edition
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A murky business
1972 · Penguin · Paperback · 222 pages · 1 edition
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A Prince Of Bohemia
2004 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 48 pages · 1 edition
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A Princess's Secrets
2009 · Bibliolife · Paperback · 344 pages · 1 edition
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A Second Home: Easyread Edition
2007 · Readhowyouwant · Paperback · 108 pages · 1 edition
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A Start In Life
2004 · Kessinger Publishing, LLC · Paperback · 164 pages · 1 edition
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