The Human Comedy (Complete Edition) (Annotated)

Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy (Complete Edition) is one of the monumental achievements of nineteenth-century European fiction: a vast, interlinked panorama of French society after the Revolution and under the Restoration and July Monarchy. Through novels, novellas, and stories grouped into "Studies of Manners," "Philosophical Studies," and "Analytical Studies," Balzac combines realist observ...