Name: Little French Masterpieces
Author: Honoré de Balzac
ISBN: 9781533117878

Literature & Fiction | Short Stories & Anthology

Little French Masterpieces

By Honoré de Balzac 2 Jan, 2020

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Excerpt from the Introduction: "Balzac's short stories, which we call in French Nouvelles are, generally speaking, not the best-known or the most popular part of his work; nor are they the part best fitted to give a true and complete idea of his geni ... Read more

Excerpt from the Introduction: "Balzac's short stories, which we call in French Nouvelles are, generally speaking, not the best-known or the most popular part of his work; nor are they the part best fitted to give a true and complete idea of his genius. But some of them are none the less masterpieces in their kind; they have characteristics and a significance not always possessed by their author's long novels, such as Eugénie Grandet or Cousin Pons; and finally, for this very reason, they hold in the unfinished structure of The Human Comedy a place which it will be interesting to try to determine. That is all that will be attempted in this Introduction." Less

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Honoré de Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a pan...

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