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Sons of the Soil
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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A novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his *La Comédie humaine*, depicting the conflict between peasants and a landowner in the French countryside. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and social realism, or in Katharine Prescott Wormeley's English translations, may find it valuable.
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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