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Albert Savarus
Honoré de Balzac · Ellen Marriage
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Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine, this novella follows an ambitious lawyer in the provincial town of Besançon whose career and love life are undermined by a young woman's jealous scheming. It suits readers of nineteenth-century French literature.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac 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.
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