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The Firm of Nucingen
Honoré de Balzac · James Waring
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A novella from Balzac's La Comédie humaine, presented as a conversation overheard in a restaurant, in which speakers describe how the banker Baron de Nucingen built his fortune through calculated financial schemes. It suits readers of nineteenth-century French literature interested in Balzac's portrayal of money and society.
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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