[Gutenberg 8079] • Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts
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- Authors
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Publisher
- Dodo Press
- Tags
- french drama -- 19th century -- translations into english
- ISBN
- 9781406506693
- Date
- 1842-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.07 MB
- Lang
- en
A Play in Five Acts set during the Napoleonic plots under Louis XVIII. (1815-1824). 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 Comidie 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.