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Scenes From Private Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95... read more

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France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics.

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This is book 16 of 21 in The Human Comedy. (standard series)

Preceded by Ursula, and followed by The Village Rector.

This is book 21 of 26 in Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Private Life. (standard series)

Preceded by Modeste Mignon, and followed by Honorine.

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  1. Honoré de Balzac (Author)

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