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An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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An Historical Mystery, also known as The Gondreville Mystery, is Balzac's novel set in Napoleonic France, in which a political abduction and its judicial aftermath unfold against the intrigues of the era. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and historical mystery.
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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