An Old Maid
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
About this book
Part of Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*, this novel follows the rivalry of suitors competing for the hand and fortune of an aging unmarried woman in provincial France. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and social realism will find it worthwhile.
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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