La Comédie humaine - Volume 03 by Honoré de Balzac

"La Comédie humaine - Volume 03" by Honoré de Balzac is a collection written between 1829 and 1850. This volume forms part of Balzac's ambitious project to create a "natural history of society" through over ninety interconnected works. Balzac systematically explores social groups and the machinery of French society, depicting the rise of capitalism, the power of money, and the dissolution of social bonds. Hundreds of recurring characters weave through multiple stories, creating a vast, non-moralistic portrait of human complexity and social mechanics. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
Title La Comédie humaine - Volume 03
Note Scènes de la vie privée - Tome 3
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 La Femme de trente ans -- Le Contrat de mariage -- Béatrix (première partie)
Credits Produced by Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 76.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy 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. 45060
Release Date
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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