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One of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, this book describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore.
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The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0140446001
- ISBN 13 9780140446005
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages320
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