Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac la Comedie Humaine

London, The Caxton Publishing Company, 1895. Cloth. A large fifty-three volume set of the works of French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac. 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). In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Damp staining to the front board of volume one of The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Cesar Birotteau, Jesus Christ in Flanders, and The Old Maid resulting in slight cocking of the boards. Front hinge starting but firm to volume one of Splendours and Miseries, The Village Cure, and Catherine De' Medici. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot or handling mark. Age toning to the endpapers. Frontispiece detached but present to volume one of The Deputy from Arcis and Eugenie Grandet. Damp staining and tide marks to the first and last few pages of volume one of The Repertory of La Comedie Humaine, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Cesar Birotteau, Jesus Christ in Flanders, and The Old Maid. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 933T53

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Balzac Comedie Humaine Works Comedie None