The Human Comedy: Scenes of Parisian Life (Ten Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Honoré De Balzac
Binding: Hardback
Published: George Barrie & Son, 1896
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Volumes II-XI only. Dried and worn leather. Internally sound. Clean and bright text.
Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans; Cousin Bette (2 vols); Cousin Pons; History of the Thirteen & co; César Birotteau; The Civil Service; House of Nucingen & co; The Petty Bourgeois (2 vols.). This distinguished set presents a cornerstone of nineteenth century literary realism, capturing Balzac’s sweeping vision of Paris as a living organism driven by ambition, desire and social maneuvering. Across these volumes, he chronicles intertwined lives that rise and fall within the city’s salons, streets and shadowed corners, presenting characters whose passions and schemes shape the pulse of urban life. Balzac illustrates the tensions between wealth and poverty, tradition and modernity and personal aspiration and moral compromise with unflinching precision. Each narrative details the intricate mechanics of society, revealing how power circulates through relationships, institutions and chance encounters.
Author: Honoré De Balzac
Binding: Hardback
Published: George Barrie & Son, 1896
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Volumes II-XI only. Dried and worn leather. Internally sound. Clean and bright text.
Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans; Cousin Bette (2 vols); Cousin Pons; History of the Thirteen & co; César Birotteau; The Civil Service; House of Nucingen & co; The Petty Bourgeois (2 vols.). This distinguished set presents a cornerstone of nineteenth century literary realism, capturing Balzac’s sweeping vision of Paris as a living organism driven by ambition, desire and social maneuvering. Across these volumes, he chronicles intertwined lives that rise and fall within the city’s salons, streets and shadowed corners, presenting characters whose passions and schemes shape the pulse of urban life. Balzac illustrates the tensions between wealth and poverty, tradition and modernity and personal aspiration and moral compromise with unflinching precision. Each narrative details the intricate mechanics of society, revealing how power circulates through relationships, institutions and chance encounters.