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The Red Inn
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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A framed tale by Honoré de Balzac in which a dinner-party story recounts a murder at a German inn and raises questions of guilt and moral responsibility, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Suitable for readers interested in classic French literature and short mystery fiction.
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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