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Paz (La Fausse Maitresse)
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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This short novel by Balzac, part of his Comédie humaine, follows a Polish count who invents a mistress to conceal his true feelings for the wife of his closest friend. Readers of nineteenth-century French literature and studies of self-sacrifice and devotion will find it of interest.
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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