A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
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About This Book
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 Comédie 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.-----------------------------------------------------------------** Check Out More Great Titles From Penny ...
Chapters (25)
- A STREET OF PARIS
- AND
- ITS INHABITANT
- HONORE DE BALZAC
- Translated by Henri Pene du Bois
- Illustrated by Francois Courboin
- CONTENTS
- PREPARER'S NOTE
- PREFACE
- I
- PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET
- II
- SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT
- III
- MADAME ADOLPHE
- IV
- INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS
- V
- FIRST COURSE
- VI
- SECOND COURSE
- VII
- DESSERT
- VIII
- THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY UNHAPPY
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