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The Unknown Masterpiece

✍ Scribed by de Balzac, Honore

Book ID
106904481
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781434460387

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✦ Synopsis

Review

β€œThe greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and perhaps of all time.” β€”_The New York Times_

β€œThe hero of The Unknown Masterpiece, Frenhofer, is one of Balzac’s archetypal artists. . .” β€”_TheWashington Post_

Product Description

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815.

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