The Human Comedy

Enter the vast, intricate world of Honoré de Balzac, the literary architect of modern realism. The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine) is one of the greatest achievements in world literature — a sweeping panorama of 19th-century French society captured in unforgettable detail. Across more than ninety novels and stories, Balzac paints a living portrait of ambition, love, greed, corruption, and red...