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Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( BAL-zak, more commonly US: BAWL-; French: [ɔnɔʁe d(ə) balzak]; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum ... Read more on Wikipedia →
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Book Series
Human Comedy
Reading order • 30 books
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Les Illusions Perdues
Reading order • 1 book