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Scenes From Country 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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On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 13 of 21 in The Human Comedy. (standard series)
Preceded by Gobseck, and followed by The Wild Ass's Skin.
This is book 1 of 3 in Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Country Life. (standard series)
Followed by The Village Rector.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Honoré de Balzac (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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