{"product_id":"2026100009496-secondhand-the-complete-works-of-honore-de-balzac-20-vols","title":"The Complete Works of Honoré de Balzac (20 vols.)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Clean and bright set. Some foxing on book blocks. All plates and frontis present. No loose hinges\/cracked joints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis twenty volume set collects Honore de Balzac's La Comedie Humaine, the vast cycle of French realist fiction that chronicles ambition, greed, love, and social ruin across Restoration and July Monarchy France, presenting financiers, provincial gentry, artists, and fallen women whose fortunes rise and collapse under the pressure of money and reputation. The set comprises Old Goriot, Eugenie Grandet, Cousin Betty, Cousin Pons, The Wild Ass's Skin, Lost Illusions, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, About Catherine De Medici, The Chouans, Modeste Mignon, Ursule Mirouet, A Daughter of Eve, The Lily of the Valley, Pierrette and the Abbe Birotteau, The Country Doctor, The Unknown Masterpiece, The Atheist's Mass, La Grande Breteche and Other Stories, The Unconscious Mummers, and The Quest of the Absolute. Balzac dissects the machinery of ambition and inheritance with forensic detail, tracing how greed corrupts families, how provincial innocence collides with Parisian vice, and how obsession, whether for gold, art, or love, ultimately destroys the men and women who chase it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203118244059,"sku":"2026100009496-SECONDHAND","price":600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/802beb11-e246-4d88-b329-8576e2cccdc5.png?v=1788144411","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009496-secondhand-the-complete-works-of-honore-de-balzac-20-vols","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}