The Human Comedy La Comedie Humaine Volume 3: Ferragus Chief Of The Devorants The Message Colonel Chabert Facino Cane Two Poets A ... Doni The Lily Of The Valley Melmoth Rec

Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His great work was a series of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine which gives a picture of swathes of French society in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Balzac had plenty of experiences to draw upon he had been an apprentice in a law office a publisher printer businessman critic and politician and failed at all of these pursuits. The novels reveal his difficulties with all these careers. Many of these books have been adapted for the screen and to this day they are a source of inspiration for writers filmmakers and critics. This volume includes sixteen works in La Comédie Humaine in their recommended reading order: Ferragus Chief Of The Devorants The Message Colonel Chabert Facino Cane Two Poets A Distinguished Provincial At Paris Eve And David La Grenadiere Massimilla Doni The Lily Of The Valley Melmoth Reconciled The Atheists Mass The Jealousies Of A Country Town An Old Maid The Collection Of Antiquities A Drama On The Seashore