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Introduction copyright © 2014 by Peter Brooks
Translation copyright © 2014 by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, and Jordan M. Stump
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Cover image: Della Rocca, An Embarrassment of Riches (detail); The Bridgeman Art Library
Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799–1850.

[Comédie humaine. Selections. English]

The human comedy : Selected Stories / By Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction By Peter Brooks ; [translated By] Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump.

pages cm. — (New York Review Books Classics)

ISBN 978-1-59017-664-1 (pbk.)

I. Brooks, Peter, 1938- editor of compilation. II. Asher, Linda, translator. III. Title.

PQ2161.W813 2014

843'.7—dc23

2013026922

ISBN 978-1-59017-698-6
v1.0

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