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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Honoré de Balzac; George Saintsbury |
| OCLC Number: | 6314807 |
| Notes: | Full bound in dark blue publisher's cloth with paper spine labels. Story titles and volume numbers on spine labels, with "Balzac" above in red. Avil, a printer and lithographer, appears to have issued more than one set of Balzac with this copyright date but with completely different bindings, frontispieces, title pages, paper, etc. |
| Description: | 18 v. : fronts., plates ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. The magic skin. The quest of the absolute, and other stories -- v. 2. About Catherine de' Medici. Seraphita, and other stories -- v. 3. Eugénie Grandet. Ursule Mirouët, and other stories -- v. 4. At the sign of the Cat and Racket. Abachelor's establishment, and other stories -- v. 5. A daughter of Eve. A woman of thirty, and other stories -- v. 6. A marriage settlement. Modeste Mignon, and other stories -- v. 7. Béatrix. The jealousies of a country town, and The commission in lunacy -- v. 8. Lost illusions. A distinguished provincial at Paris -- v. 9. The Lily of the Valley. The country doctor, and other stories -- v. 10. The country parson and Albert Savarus. The peasantry -- v. 11. Poor relations: Cousin Betty, Cousin Pons -- v. 12. Scenes from a courtesan's life. The government clerks -- v. 13. The thirteen. Father Goriot, and other stories -- v. 14. The rise and fall of César Birotteau. The middle classes -- v. 15. The Chouans. The Gondreville mystery, and other stories -- v. 16. The member for Arcis. The seamy side of history, and other stories -- v. 17. Vautrin. The resources of Quinola, and other stories -- v. 18. The physiology of married life. Repertory. |
| Responsibility: | with introductions by George Saintsbury. |
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