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The human comedy : selected stories / Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks ; translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump.
- Title
- The human comedy : selected stories / Honoré de Balzac ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Brooks ; translated from the French by Linda Asher, Carol Cosman, Jordan Stump.
- Author
- Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2014]
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- Description
- xxi, 428 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "We think of Honore Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy. Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, and it's here that we get some of his most daring explorations of crime, sexuality, and artistic creation. As Marcel Proust noted, it is in these tales that we detect, under the surface, the mysterious circulation of blood and desire. All are newly translated by three outstanding translators who restore the freshness of Balzac's vivid and highly colored prose"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- Comédie humaine. Selections. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Comédie humaine.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Short stories, French.
- Note
- Translation of: Comédie humaine (selections).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Facino Cane -- Another study of womankind -- The red inn -- Sarrasine -- A passion in the desert -- Adieu -- Z. Marcas -- Gobseck -- The Duchesse de Langeais.
- ISBN
- 9781590176641 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1590176642 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781590176986 (ebk.)
- 1590176987 (ebk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013026922
- OCLC
- 841229362
- SCSB-12482953
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library