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Farewell

By Honoré de Balzac

2020-01-03 02:15:45

Published in 1830, Farewell is a short, but very intensive novella by the founder of European realism, Honoré de Balzac. The complex short story is about the horrors of wars and the mutilating effect of warfare on human lives - subject matter that c ... Read more
Published in 1830, Farewell is a short, but very intensive novella by the founder of European realism, Honoré de Balzac. The complex short story is about the horrors of wars and the mutilating effect of warfare on human lives - subject matter that combines with Balzac's extraordinary storytelling style to make a powerful text, providing the reader with a profound and shaking experience. Farewell is part of Balzac's most important work, La Comédie Humaine, a huge collection of short stories set in France in the period after Napoleon's fall. Just like the other stories in the collection, Farewell can be read as a completely independent writing or as an essential and organic part of the big picture that Balzac proposes to offer to his readers with his magnum opus. Less

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File size49.096 KB
Print pages46
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-04-29
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1169201590
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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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