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The Country Doctor
Honoré de Balzac · Clara Bell · Ellen Marriage
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The Country Doctor follows a physician who settles in a poor rural district of the French Alps and works to improve the lives and economy of its inhabitants. Readers interested in Balzac's Comédie humaine, nineteenth-century French society, and rural reform will 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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