CHAPTER I
One of
many chevaliers de Valois
Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces
in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois.
One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third
(wi...
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The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Common...
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Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation f...
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The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “...
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The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “...
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An Old Maid
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac
Curious Quasi-Memoir From a Superlative Writer
