At the Sign of the Cat and Racket: The Comedy of Human Life Volume VII: Nonsuch Classics (Nonsuch Classics Series) - Softcover

Balzac, Honore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184588051X ISBN 13: 9781845880514

Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2005

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The Comedy of Human Life (La Comédie Humaine) is the collective title given to a series of linked stories by Balzac, totalling about 100 in all, and loosely divided into groups, such as provincial, Parisian, political, military, and country. Conceived in 1834, his idea was to produce a work with philosophical underpinnings which would survey all aspects of French society from the Revolution to his own time. Originally intended to comprise some 150 novels and short stories featuring around 2,000 characters, this gargantuan project was about two-thirds completed by the time of Balzac&;s death. Volume VII includes some of the best stories from the series, concerning marriage, spoiled children, beauty, money, the aristocracy, child abuse and "the art of living."

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Honore de Balzac was born in 1799. His family moved to Paris in 1814 and in 1816 he entered the Sorbonne to study law. However, he decided to pursue his dream of writing rather than embarking upon a legal career. His early novels, written under a pseudonym, were unsuccessful, but, despite the opposition of his family, he decided to continue writing and his persistence paid off in 1829, when, with the publication of La Dernier Chouan, Balzac finally achieved recognition. In the following years he produced a number of works which are considered to be classics of French literature, including La peau de chagrin (1931), Eugenie Grandet (1933) and Les illusions perdues (Vol. I, 1937). In 1850 Balzac married Eveline Hanska, a rich Polish lady with whom he had been corresponding for 15 years, but he died in the same year.

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• Verlag: The History Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184588051X
• ISBN 13: 9781845880514
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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