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The Marriage Contract
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Part of Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*, this novel examines a marriage undermined by financial negotiations and the legal terms of the marriage contract. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and social realism, here in Katharine Prescott Wormeley's English translation.
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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