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    Honoré De Balzac

    The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris, where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of 30 and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of 18 years.
    The Wrong Side of Paris
    The Wrong Side of Paris
    Honoré De Balzac
    9780812966756
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 12, 2005
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Cousin Bette
    Cousin Bette
    Honoré De Balzac
    9780375759079
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 12, 2002
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    The Wrong Side of Paris
    The Wrong Side of Paris
    Honoré De Balzac
    9780812966756
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 12, 2005
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Cousin Bette
    Cousin Bette
    Honoré De Balzac
    9780375759079
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 12, 2002
    Modern Library
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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