Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03 - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine Release date is 2019-10-22

La Maison Nucingen -- Pierre Grassou -- Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan -- Les Employés ou la Femme supérieure -- Splendeurs et Misères des courtisanes.

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"La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03" by Balzac is part of a monumental literary project written between 1829 and 1850. This volume belongs to Balzac's ambitious effort to create a "natural history of society" through over ninety interconnected works. The collection systematically explores social groups and societal mechanisms through hundreds of recurring characters who reappear across different novels. Balzac captures the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the complexity of human nature in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

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