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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 Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished... read more

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Early in the autumn of 1826 the Abbe Birotteau, the principal personage of this history, was overtaken by a shower of rain as he returned home from a friend's house, where he had been passing the evening.

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This is book 4 of 13 in Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Provencial Life. (standard series)

Preceded by Pierrette, and followed by The Two Brothers.

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  1. Honoré de Balzac (Author)

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