- Social life and customs, Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), French literature
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Classical in form, prestige, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
- First published
- 1838
- Pages
- 637
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent, L. de Potter, Gallimard
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- vie, French, English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782070364053
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Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac
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