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The Droll Stories of Honore de Balzac

by Honore de Balzac · 1831

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Balzac was originally trained as a lawyer before deciding his dream was to become a writer. He is now regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature & his huge production of novels & short stories are collected under the name La Comedie Humaine. This volume contains 30 of Balzac's tales split into three sections.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thiseroticaeroticaMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
FranceFranceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 452 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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