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Details
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (463K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by John Bickers, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger
Release date
2005-10-20
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Honoré de Balzac
1799–1850
A giant of French fiction, he turned the crowded streets, salons, and back rooms of 19th-century France into vivid, gripping stories. His vast cycle of novels and tales, known as La Comédie humaine, helped shape the modern realist novel.
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