Pick of the Week Commencing April 25th 2011
Superb Complete 53 Volume Set of Balzac’s Human Comedy
Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 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 fall of Napoleon I in 1815.
This literary work consists of a hundred short stories and novels written by Balzac during the early 19th century. They are compiled into different sections. The titles of these sections are: Scenes from Private life, Scenes from Provincial life, Scenes from Parisian life, Scenes from Political Life, Scenes from Military life, Scenes from Country Life, and Philosophical Studies. Balzac wrote these stories because he wanted to study and examine every day life via the lives of individuals in different levels of Parisian society.
These novels were first published between the years 1825-1848.
