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Pierrette
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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*Pierrette* is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his *Comédie humaine*, in which an orphaned young girl is taken in by miserly provincial relatives who mistreat her. It suits readers of nineteenth-century French literature and those studying Balzac's portrayal of provincial life and family cruelty.
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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