Format:Softcover
This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy.
Literary & Contemporary Fiction
320 pages • Softcover
First published 1994
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Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics)
This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy.
Literary & Contemporary Fiction
320 pages • Softcover
First published 1994
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