Honor? De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels. H
The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honoré de Balzac
✍ Scribed by De Balzac, Honore
- Book ID
- 106754639
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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