La Comédie humaine - Volume 01 by Honoré de Balzac
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"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.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
|---|---|
| Title | La Comédie humaine - Volume 01 |
| Note | Scènes de la vie privée - Tome 1 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Com%C3%A9die_humaine |
| Contents | 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 |
| Credits |
Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 41211 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-41211-5 |
| Release Date | Oct 28, 2012 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 609 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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