[Gutenberg 1455] • The Hated Son

[Gutenberg 1455] • The Hated Son
Authors
Balzac, Honoré de
Publisher
Dodo Press
Tags
france -- fiction , nobility -- france -- fiction , classics , man-woman relationships -- fiction , french fiction -- translations into english
ISBN
9781406506464
Date
1831-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.10 MB
Lang
en
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By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.