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    The Ball at Sceaux
    The Ball at Sceaux
    The Ball at Sceaux
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    The Ball at Sceaux

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2000
    The Ball at Sceaux
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    Honoré de Balzac

    Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.

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    • 3/5
      The Ball at Sceaux - The second short story in the Scenes from Private Life section of Balzac's La Comedie Humaine, this is a rather straightforward cautionary tale about a spoiled girl who frustrates her family's attempts to find her a husband by finding faults with all of her potential suitors. Demanding of physical perfection and noble aristocracy in a husband, she eventually falls in love with a mysterious young man at the ball, only to reject him when she discovers him working as a cloth merchant. He leaves town, she marries her uncle, and years later he's a wealthy peer of France. Womp womp.
    • 4/5
      This was really a short story rather than a novella but nonetheless Balzac gives a complete picture of the de Fontaine family and of the youngest daughter Emilie in particular. She provides quite a different picture of feminity from Augustine, the heroine of "At the Sign of the Cat and Racket"!

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