Balzac

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jean Béraud. A study of Balzac by an American who admired him past reason: the debts, the coffee, the twenty-hour days, the Comédie humaine as a single building, and the marriage that came too late. Edgar Saltus published it in 1884 as his first book, in the ornate style he never abandoned. It is criticis...