Brief Lives: Honore De Balzac

The author of the monumental "La Comedie Humaine", Honore de Balzac was an extraordinarily prolific writer and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of realism. This new biography looks at his remarkable body of work, setting it against his life in nineteenth-century France. A perfect companion to "Hesperus'" editions of "Colonel Chabert" and "Sarrasine", this book will make informative and captivating reading for anyone with an interest in French literature and history.