The Shorter Stories of Honore de Balzac (Hardcover)

1932. Balzac was originally trained as a lawyer before deciding his dream was to become a writer. He is now regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature and his huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La Comedie Humaine. Contents: Don Juan; or The Elixir of Long Life; Christ in Flanders; In the Time of the Terror; Madame de Dey's Last Reception (Le Requisitionnaire); A Passion in the Desert; Lost by a Laugh (from Autre etude de femme); Gold (Facino Cane); Doomed to Live (El Verdugo); An Accursed House (La Grande Breteche) The Atheist's Mass; and A Tragedy by the Sea. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.