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    Melmoth Reconciled
    Melmoth Reconciled
    Melmoth Reconciled
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    Melmoth Reconciled

    By Ellen Marriage and Honoré de Balzac

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2000
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      This novella from the Human Comedy is best read by those who have already read Maturin's Melmoth (as might be expected from the title). I enjoyed Balzac's ironical discourse about cashiers which prefaces the plot involving the cashier Castanier much more than the philosophical resolution to Castanier's situation (a bit too pat for me but that section is quite short & not without interest).I read this in Project Gutenberg's omnibus "The Works of Balzac"; this novella was translated by Ellen Marriage.

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