1895 Honore de Balzac La Comedie Humaine

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Fifty-three volumes. Caxton edition. With a frontispiece to each volume and additional illustrations in-text to some volumes. A large collection of the works of Honore de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Containing many of the works from his multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories La Comedie Humaine, which depicts society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy of post-Napoleonic French life, and is generally viewed as his magnum opus. This set contains: Splendours and Miseries in two volumes (1895), The Poor Relations in three volumes (1896), Lost Illusions in three volumes (1898), Physiology of Marriage in two volumes (1900), The Celibates in two volumes (1897), The Deputy from Arcis in two volumes (1898), The Petty Bourgeois in two volumes (1896), The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine in two volumes (1900), Les Contes Drolatiques in two volumes (1900), Gambara (1899), Honorine (1897), The Magic Skin (1899), The Chouans (1898), Z. Marcas (1898), A Woman of Thirty (1897), The Lily of the Valley (1897), The Unknown Masterpiece (1899), The Marriage Contract (1897), Ursule Mirouet (1897), A Start in Life (1897), The House of Nucingen (1896), The Village Cure (1899), The Peasants (1899), Eugenie Grandet (1897), Catherine De' Medici (1899), Modeste Mignon (1897), Beatrix (1897), The Civil Service (1896), History of the Thirteen (1896), Memoirs of Two Young Wives (1896), Old Goriot (1897), The Country Doctor (1899), Cesar Birotteau (1896), Adieu (1899), Jesus Christ in Flanders (1899), The Quest of the Absolute (1899), Albert Savarus (1897), The Old Maid (1898), A Double Family (1897), The House of the Cat and Racket (1896), The Illustrious Gaudissart (1898), and A Passion in the Desert (1898).