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Release date is 2015-07-18

Ursule Mirouet -- Eugénie Grandet -- Les Célibataires (première histoire): Pierrette.

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"La Comédie humaine - Volume 05. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 01" by Balzac is part of a monumental collection written between 1829 and 1850. This volume belongs to Balzac's ambitious project to create a "natural history of society," systematically exploring social groups across France. The work features interconnected characters who reappear throughout multiple stories, depicting the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the dissolution of social bonds. Balzac creates vivid human types and psychological portraits that capture the complexity of nineteenth-century French society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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