Balzac
A Biography
By Graham Robb
June 2000
Sidgwick & Jackson 
ISBN: 0330320157
539 Pages, Illustrated, 5" x 7 ¾"
$24.00 Paper Original
Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece of literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colorful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography. The author skillfully interweaves the life with the work to pain an indelible and brilliantly composed portrait of one of the great tragicomic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been and still is immense.
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