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The Muse of the Department
Honoré de Balzac · James Waring
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A gifted provincial woman's affair with a Parisian journalist forms the core of this Balzac novella from La Comédie humaine. It suits readers drawn to nineteenth-century French realism and Balzac's studies of ambition and the constraints on women's lives.
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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