Honoré de Balzac: The Complete 'Human Comedy' Cycle (100+ Works) (Manor Books) (The Greatest Writers of All Time)
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It consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the "Contes drolatiques" (1832–37). The title of the series is usually considered an allusion to Dante's Divine Comedy; while Ferdinand Brunetière, the famous French literary critic, suggests that it may stem from poems by Alfred de Musset or Alfred de Vigny. While Balzac sought the comprehensive scope of Dante, his title indicates the worldly, human concerns of a realist novelist. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
Notable works included in the 'Human Comedy':
- The Purse
- Domestic Bliss
- The Imaginary Mistress
- A Daughter Of Eve
- Honorine
- Beatrix
- Gobseck
- A Woman Of Thirty
- Old Goriot (Father Goriot)
- Colonel Chabert
- A Marriage Contract
- Another Study Of Woman
- Ursule Mirouet
- Eugenie Grandet
- The Vicar Of Tours
- The Illustrious Gaudissart
- Cesar Birotteau
- Sarrasine
- Cousin Bette (Cousin Betty)
- The Girl With The Golden Eyes
- The Chouans
- Z. Marcas
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.
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