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The Deserted Woman
Honoré de Balzac · Ellen Marriage
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A short novel by Balzac following a young man who falls in love with an aristocratic woman living in seclusion after a broken love affair. It suits readers of nineteenth-century French fiction and those interested in romance and social constraint.
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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