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Melmoth Reconciled
Honoré de Balzac · Ellen Marriage
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Melmoth Reconciled is Balzac's short story, part of La Comédie humaine, translated by Ellen Marriage, in which the devil-bargaining wanderer Melmoth passes his cursed pact to a desperate Parisian cashier. It suits readers of nineteenth-century French fiction and those interested in the Faustian tradition.
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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