La Balzac, Honoré de 1799-1850 creator text utu 2012 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Comédie humaine - Volume 01" by Honoré de Balzac is a monumental literary project written between 1829 and 1850. This ambitious work encompasses over 90 novels, short stories, and essays that create a "natural history of society." Balzac systematically explores social groups and mechanisms through interconnected narratives where hundreds of characters reappear across different stories. He captures the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the complexity of human nature, creating unforgettable archetypes like the ambitious Rastignac and the miserly Grandet. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Avant-propos -- La Maison du chat-qui-pelote -- Le Bal de Sceaux -- La Bourse -- La Vendetta -- Madame Firmiani -- Une double famille -- La Paix du ménage -- La Fausse Maîtresse -- Étude de femme -- Albert Savarus Scènes de la vie privée - Tome 1 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 2012-10-28 Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41211 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41211 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133937.0 41211