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From Poor Relations. Scenes From Parisian Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). 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 Comedie 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1516835 in Books
• Published on: 1973-05-08
• Released on: 1973-05-08
• Original language: French
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 438 pages

Quatrième de couverture
- Deux mots suffisent à tout éclaircir, madame, dit Fraisier. Monsieur le président est le seul et unique héritier de monsieur Pons. Monsieur Pons est très malade, il va tester, s'il ne l'a déjà fait, en faveur d'un Allemand, son ami, nommé Schmucke, et l'importance de sa succession sera de plus de sept cent mille francs... - Si cela est, se dit à elle-même la présidente foudroyée par la possibilité de ce chiffre, j'ai fait une grande faute en me brouillant avec lui, en l'accablant. - Non, madame, car sans cette rupture il serait gai comme un pinson, et vivrait plus longtemps que vous, que monsieur le président et que moi... La Providence a ses voies, ne les sondons pas !

About the Author
Balzac was born in 1799, the son of a civil servant. At the age of thirty - heavily in debt and with an unsucessful past behind him - he started work on the first of what were to become a total of ninety novels and short stories that make up The Human Comedy. He died in 1850. Translated and introduced by Herbert J. Hunt