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Balzaculator - Angela Lorenz  Balzaculator - La Comedie Humaine as a Binary System for Balzacolytes ... to its limit: his characters appear throughout most of the 90-odd novels and short stories .... helpful to his memory and all encompassing mission to display every human ... He himself finally achieved his dream of an art collection of old masters just a...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Dec 8, 2012 ... His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Alex Trebek.
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Honore de Balzac - New World Encyclopedia  La Comdie humaine consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels or ... It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the .... in the novel almost as a character in itself, is massive, bustling, all-encompassing. ... La Comdie humaine spanned more than 90 novels and short stories in an...
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Honor de Balzac - Paris guide  A similar type himself, Balzac wrote over 90 novels in his life that continue to inspire ... to write short stories from which he earnt some money, though a pitiable sum. ... would encompass all aspects of society - it was called La Comdie Humaine ... in Paris and his image was immortalized by Auguste Rodin in a monumental...
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Balzac, Honor de  -   Sep 20, 2016 ... The six stories in his Scnes de la vie prive (1830; Scenes from Private .... 1840 he had hit upon a Dantesque title for the whole: La Comdie humaine. ... A complete, compact collection of Balzac's letters consists of Roger Pierrot (ed.) ... a vast series of some 90 novels and novellas by Honor de Balzac,...
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Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1 - Within a Budding Grove ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a ... Then, over several thousand pages, he retraces the course of his own .... anything you will ever read, and Proust is totally unique among authors. ... manages to make you forget you are reading a nine hundred page novel set in.
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Tales of the Jazz Age - Wikipedia  John Held, Jr.'s cover of the 1922 first edition. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Tales of the Jazz Age. Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, ... Published as a novelette in the The Smart Set in July, 1920, "May Day"...
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Amazon.com: Haroun and the Sea of Stories (9780140157376 ...  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Immediately forget any preconceptions you may have ... Salman Rushdie (Author). 4.4 out of 5 ... .Though [the book] is sure to be enjoyed by children, it also contains amusements for adults. ..... Published 1 month ago by Amazon Customer ... The Satanic Verses: A Novel Paperback.
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Amazon.com: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York ...  The Human Comedy: Selected Stories and over one million other books are .... The great thing about work this entertaining is that it's still exciting nearly 200 years on. ... of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years, ... He has written about Balzac in a number of books, including The...
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Honore de Balzac | French author | Britannica.com  French literary artist who produced a vast number of novels and short stories collectively called La Comdie humaine (The Human Comedy). ... Honor de Balzac, original name Honor Balssa (born May 20, 1799, Tours, ... to Paris, where he went to school for two more years and then spent three years as a lawyer's clerk.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Wikipedia  Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's book by Salman Rushdie. It was Rushdie's fifth novel after The Satanic Verses. ... (book cover).jpg. First edition. Author, Salman Rushdie ... Publication date. 27 September 1990. Media type...
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La Comdie humaine - Wikipedia  La Comdie humaine is the title of Honor de Balzac's (17991850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (18151848). The Comdie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or ... The title of the series is usually considered an allusion to Dante's Divine...
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O. Henry - Trimmed Lamp First Edition | Bauman Rare Books  The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million. ... This scarce story collection, O. Henry's third book, brings together 25 tales by this widely ... The Last Leaf and so many others, the range of his rhetorical effects is dazzling ... It is also in many ways a paradigmatic element of the short story as a genre (Scotfield,...
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The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia  The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, three years later, Clerk of the King's work in 1389. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous ..... Having the Knight go first gives one the idea that all will tell their stories by...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922 - Amazon.com  Buy F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise ... of what he called "the greatest, the gaudiest spree in history," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote ... Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), his second collection of stories, includes the...
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Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson  Reviews ...  This collection of essays includes Virginibus Puerisque, Crabbed Age and Youth, AnMoreRobert ... to recommend it. my feelings towards the author could have had some influence on my rating. ... Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) ... We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and...
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41 Stories by O. Henry  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  A wonderful collection of some of O'Henry, the master of irony's best works like .... Highlights include "The Furnished Room," a haunting short story about a man ... but a favorite of mine was in A Double-Eyed Deceiver when the US consul .... His irony, dry sense of humor, and surprise endings never fail to suck me into his...
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