The Atheist's Mass (Penguin Classics 60s) - Softcover

Balzac, Honoré De; Raphael, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0146001990 ISBN 13: 9780146001994

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

Synopsis

One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0146001990
• ISBN 13: 9780146001994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96