Honore de Balzac - Complete Works, Delphi Classics torrent

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Eça de Queirós, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.

The Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death—Balzac had plans to include numerous other books, most of which he never started. He frequently moved between works in progress, and "finished" works were often revised between editions. This piecemeal style is reflective of the author's own life, a possible attempt to stabilize it through fiction. "The vanishing man", writes Pritchett, "who must be pursued from the rue Cassini to ... Versailles, Ville d'Avray, Italy, and Vienna can construct a settled dwelling only in his work."

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete Human Comedy of Honoré de Balzac in English, with beautiful illustrations, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material.

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Balzac's life and works

* Concise introductions to the novels and other works

* The COMPLETE ‘La Comédie humaine’ in English translation

* The whole series is precisely organised into Balzac's plan

* Includes Balzac’s introduction AVANT-PROPOS

* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* Famous works such as FATHER GORIOT, COUSIN BETTY, THE MAGIC SKIN and many more are illustrated with their original artwork

* Balzac’s five plays

* Criticism section, with seven essays by writers such as Henry James and Leslie Stephen, evaluating Balzac’s contribution to literature

* Features five biographies - discover in depth Balzac's literary life!

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

* Special CHARACTERS resource, with information on all members of the cast of ‘La Comédie humaine’, with references to the novels and stories they appear in

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* Complete Works ofHonoré de Balzac - Honoré de Balzac -- ePUB

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