| A Bachelor's Establishment (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): De Balzac, Honore (Author), Wormeley, Katharine Prescott (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1409948978 ISBN-13: 9781409948971 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $20.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Honor (c) de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Com (c)die Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napol (c)on Bonaparte in 1815. 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 authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac €(TM)s works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. |