A Start in Life
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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.
Chapters (18)
- A START IN LIFE
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- A START IN LIFE
- ADDENDUM
- A START IN LIFE
- CHAPTER I. THAT WHICH WAS LACKING TO PIERROTIN’S HAPPINESS
- CHAPTER II. THE STEWARD IN DANGER
- CHAPTER III. THE TRAVELLERS
- CHAPTER IV. THE GRANDSON OF THE FAMOUS CZERNI-GEORGES
- CHAPTER V. THE DRAMA BEGINS
- CHAPTER VI. THE MOREAU INTERIOR
- CHAPTER VII. A MOTHER’S TRIALS
- CHAPTER VIII. TRICKS AND FARCES OF THE EMBRYO LONG ROBE
- CHAPTER IX, LA MARQUISE DE LAS FLORENTINAS Y CABIROLOS
- CHAPTER X. ANOTHER CATASTROPHE
- CHAPTER XI. OSCAR’S LAST BLUNDER
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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