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Unconscious Comedians

Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley

FormatEbook
Published1998
Words21,681
LanguageEnglish
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A short work from Balzac's Comédie Humaine, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, offering a satirical portrait of mid-nineteenth-century Parisian society and its characteristic types. It suits readers of French realist literature and those studying Balzac's larger body of work.
Honoré de Balzac

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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