Honoré de Balzac
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Alas, none of the actualities of life would ever break down his robust confidence nor his golden dreams! Even before The Country Doctor was published he found himself involved in a law suit with his publisher, and after its appearance the public press criticised it sharply. "Everyone has his knife out for me," he wrote to Mme. Hanska, "a situation which saddened and angered Lord Byron only makes me laugh."
Chapters (13)
- HONORÉ DE BALZAC
- Little French Masterpieces
- HONORÉ DE BALZAC
- Edited by Alexander Jessup An Introduction by Ferdinand Brunetière The Translation by George Burnham Ives
- INTRODUCTION
- The Unknown Masterpiece
- I GILLETTE
- II CATHERINE LESCAULT
- A Seashore Drama
- An Episode under the Terror
- La Grande Bretèche
- The Conscript
- A Passion in the Desert
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