El Verdugo
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
About this book
Balzac's short story "El Verdugo" (1830) follows a young Spanish nobleman forced to execute his own family to spare them from French soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. It will appeal to readers interested in moral tragedy, the ethics of war, and Balzac's early Romantic fiction.
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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