The Human Comedy - Honore De Balzac

An Nyrb Classics Original Characters From Every Corner Of Society And All Walks Of Lifemdash;lords And Ladies, Businessmen And Military Men, Poor Clerks, Unforgiving Moneylenders, Aspiring Politicians, Artists, Actresses, Swindlers, Misers, Parasites, Sexual Adventurers, Crackpots, And Moremdash;move Through The Pages Of The Human Comedy, Balzacrsquo;s Multivolume Magnum Opus, An Interlinked Chronicle Of Modernity In All Its Splendor And Squalor. The Human Comedy Includes The Great Roomy Novels That Have Exercised Such A Sway Over Balzacrsquo;s Many Literary Inheritors, From Dostoyevsky And Henry James To Marcel Proust; It Also Contains An Array Of Short Fictions In Which Balzac Is At His Most Concentrated And Forceful. Nine Of These, All Newly Translated, Appear In This Volume, And Together They Provide An Unequaled Overview Of A Great Writerrsquo;s Obsessions And Art.