URSULA
CHAPTER I
The frightened
heirs
Entering Nemours by the road to Paris, we cross the
canal du Loing, the steep banks of which serve the
double purpose of ramparts to the fields and of picturesque...
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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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Ursula
Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac