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    The Firm of Nucingen
    The Firm of Nucingen
    The Firm of Nucingen
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    The Firm of Nucingen

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    "The Firm of Nucingen" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story, but it's impactful. In the private dining room of a famous Parisian restaurant, the narrator overhears the conversation of four journalists in the next room, characters from one of Balzac's other books. They comment and speculate about the wealth of Eugène de Rastignac, among other things, who they remember was poor when he first arrived in Paris. The book examines humanity from this outside perspective and the unwritten rules of society.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 29, 2019
    ISBN4057664616173
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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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