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Maitre Cornelius
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Set in 15th-century France during the reign of Louis XI, this novella by Honoré de Balzac follows a miserly moneylender troubled by thefts, translated here by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. It suits readers interested in French literature and historical 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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