The Unknown Masterpiece

Honore De Balzac

Language: English

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: Feb 15, 2008

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Review

“The greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and perhaps of all time.” —_The New York Times_

“The hero of The Unknown Masterpiece, Frenhofer, is one of Balzac’s archetypal artists. . .” —_TheWashington Post_

Product Description

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815.