Publisher: | London.: Leonard Smithers. | Edition: | Limited Edition [of 250]; Published Date: 1897 | Illustrations: | Illustrations | Dimensions: | 220 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches) - [7500pp.] | Appearance: | Red/gilt hardback cover. | Condition: | G : in good condition without dust jacket. Some rubbing and marking to covers. Spines faded (+ several boards). Lightly browned eps. Lightly foxed eps + page edges (overall clean and bright). 2 sides untrimmed. Teg. |
The titles covered in this set are: The Splendours and Miseries of Courtesans (Vol 1 & 2 - The Way That Girls Love, How Much Love Cost Old Men, The End Of Bad Roads & The Last Incarnation of Vautrin) The Poor Relations (Cousin Bette, Pierre Grassou, The Girl with the Golden Eyes), The Poor Relations (Cousin Pons), History of the Thirteen: Ferragus Chief of the Devorants, La Duchesse de Langeais, History of the Grandeur and Downfall of Cesar Birotteau, The Civil Services, Gaudissart II, A Prince of Bohemia, The house of Nucingen, The Secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan, Sarrasine Facino Cane, A Man of Business, The Involuntary Comedians, The Petty Bourgeois (Vol I&II), The House of the Cat and Racket, The Danse at Sceaux, The Purse, The Vendetta, Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Modeste Mignon, A Start in Life, Madame Firiani, The Message, The Atheist's Mass, Albert Savarus, A Daughter of Eve, The Marriage Contract, La Grenadiere, Gobseck, A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Mistress, Old Goriot, Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction, Beatrix, A Double family, The Peace of the Household, A Study of Woman, Another Study of a Woman, The Pretended Mistress. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French journalist and writer, regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature. Balzac's huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comédie Humaine. A key figure in the 1890's the publisher Leonard Smithers was known best for publishing authors other publishers wouldn't touch 'with a barge pole' from writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley to outright pornography.
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