Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)

Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honor de Balzac (17991850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting ordinary and undistinguished lives in tales that nevertheless abounded in melodramatic plots and violent passions. This convenient dual language volume includes six of Balzac's most highly regarded short stories: "An Episode During the Terror," a deftly told tale contrasting material poverty with spiritual

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" A Rake's Progress

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Over 69 of the illustrations have been rephotographed from the original works specially for this edition