Honoré de Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes: The First Complete Translation into English, Volume 17 - Tapa blanda

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A prolific writer, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is generally regarded, along with Gustave Flaubert, as a founding father of realism in European literature, and as one of France's greatest fiction writers.

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canada s leading literary critic and one of the world s leading theorists of society and the imagination. Among his twenty-three books, and more than three hundred articles and reviews, are classic studies such as "Fearful Symmetry", "Anatomy of Criticism", "The Great Code", and "Words With Power".