The fifty stories that balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the characters that throng thecome

Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honor� de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting ordinary

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