At the Sign of the Cat & Racket: (la Maison du Chat Qui Pelote)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002Q4UNM8 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 314 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. Scenes From Private Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.******************************************************** Check Out More Great Titles From Dodo Publishing ********************************************************Click on "Dodo Publishing (Editor)" under the title to see a full list of all of our great books!!New titles are being added daily, so be sure to check back often to find more great discounted books!!. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of
""A fit of trembling shook her like an aspen leaf as she recognized herself"" according to Sebastian Fernandez. This is the work that the great Honore de Balzac chose as the one that should open his masterpiece, La Comedie Humane. This belongs to the part titled Scenes of a Private Life, and as such deals with intimate feelings of infatuation, love, desire and despair.Balzac is a master in using normal social interactions to develop his stories, and each of them we feel that besides being entertained, we got a glimpse of the post-Napoleon French society.There are very few works that can be put on the same level as this collection of stories, novels and essays by Balzac. I highly recommend anyone not fami. "Not Balzac's best work" according to Natalee. I think he had a contractual obligation to crank out a book for his publisher, and not only did he half-@ss it but he also procrastinated too long in writing it and ran out of time to give it a proper ending.. Karl Janssen said Strong start, flat finish. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in 18Strong start, flat finish At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a short novel by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in 1830, but the story takes place about two decades earlier. It is one of the earliest pieces Balzac wrote for inclusion in his Comédie Humaine, the collection of 91 interconnected writings in which he documents the entire scope of French society in the early 19th century. While this particular entry is an adequate showcase of this great author's formidable talent, it certainly doesn't deserve to be counted among his masterpieces.Balzac begins the book by describing an ancient building . 0, but the story takes place about two decades earlier. It is one of the earliest pieces Balzac wrote for inclusion in his Comédie Humaine, the collection of 91 interconnected writings in which he documents the entire scope of French society in the early 19th century. While this particular entry is an adequate showcase of this great author's formidable talent, it certainly doesn't deserve to be counted among his masterpieces.Balzac begins the book by describing an ancient building