A Woman at Thirty

By Honore de Balzac

Known for his keen observations and finely drawn characters, Honore de Balzac is regarded as one of the forerunners of the literary realism movement that swept Europe in the nineteenth century. A Woman of Thirty offers an unflinching look at the layers of social oppression that dictated the course of many women's lives during the era.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing
• Release date: Jul 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9789635275595

Honore 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.

Reviews for A Woman at Thirty

[lysann · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Balzac isn't something for everyone. He writes very descriptive, very philosophical and very excessive, that you sometimes almost loose track about the story he wants to tell, because the things he wants to say will become the focus. Nonetheless, it's a story that goes close to your heart and makes the distress of a woman, trapped in a silly marriage, understandable.The crux is, it's her own chosen destiny she needs to live through. Balzac did understand the women of his time and the peril that could await them, very well.