Selected Short Stories by Honore De Balzac
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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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| ISBN 13 | 9780146001994 |
| ISBN 10 | 0146001990 |
| Title | Selected Short Stories |
| Author | Honore De Balzac |
| Series | Penguin Classics 60s S |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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