The Lesser Bourgeoisie

*The Lesser Bourgeoisie* (Les Petits Bourgeois) is an unfinished novel by Honoré de Balzac, part of his *La Comédie humaine*, depicting the ambitions and social maneuvering of lower-middle-class Parisians, here in Wormeley's English translation. Readers of nineteenth-century French realism and Balzac's broader cycle will find it of interest.