BALZAC
ZWEIG, STEFAN
- Publisher: The Viking Press
- Date published: 1946
U.S.A: The Viking Press, 1946. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. The Viking Press, 1946. Book Club Edition. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Without dust jacket. Section with 14 plates of sepia illustrations before text. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. The life of one of the world's most notable writers and one of the founders of realism in European literature, Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a series of almost 100 novels collectively called "La Comedie Humaine", which provide a portrait of all aspects of French society in the years after Napoleon's fall in 1815. He is known for his very human and realistic characters. His biographer, Stefan Zweig (1881-19420 , was himself a prolific Austrian novelist, and a playwright, journalist and biographer, quite popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The book is bound in light grey cloth with red script HB on the front panel, red panel on spine with grey and red titles. Clean, corners and spine ends scuffed. Tight and solid. Previous gift-giver message on loose endpaper. Interior of book is clean, unmarked, no tears, pages toned. 404 pages with Appendix and Bibliography. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 1946, The Viking Press, New York, New York, USA
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