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Biography: French novelist Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) is known as a master novelist, most famously for a series of novels called La Comedie Humaine, which chronicle French society of his time. Licensed as a lawyer, he never practiced law, but started writing sensational novels to support himself until the publication of his first realist novel, Les Choans (1829). His style of realism influenced countless writers, including Dickens, Flaubert, and Proust.

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Letters of Two Brides
Honore de Balzac

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Letters of Two Brides
by Honore de Balzac

When two young women escape from their convent school to be wed, their lives change tremendously. Louise and Renee become Madames Gaston and lEstorade, and exchange letters describing the changes. Over the next seventeen years, they share the passions and betrayals of married life.

Category: Historical Romance

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