Honore de Balzac

(1799-1850) French journalist and writer, one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie humaine, which originated from Dante´s The Divine Comedy. Before his breakthrough as an author, Balzac wrote without success several plays and novels under different pseudonyms. [Read more]

Balzac: A Reader (Five Stories, edited and with an introduction by Edmund Fuller)
A Laurel Reader, 1960 (PhP 50.00)
The genius of Balzac is seen in some of its sharpest flashes in the brilliant short novels which, though they are less massive stones than "Pere Goriot" or "Cesar Birotteau," are equally essential parts of the vast structure of "La Comedie Humaine." This volume presents five of the finest of these novelettes, arranged in the order in which they were writen.