Honoré de Balzac /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brooks, Peter, 1938- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	My reading (Series)
Subjects:	Balzac, Honoré de, > 1799-1850. > Comédie humaine. Balzac, Honoré de, > 1799-1850 > Criticism and interpretation. Balzac, Honoré de, > 1799-1850 Comédie humaine (Balzac, Honoré de) Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Description
Abstract:	A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: how I moved from more classical and restrained authors (Stendhal, Laclos) to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of The Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. "The father of us all," Henry James called Balzac. This is a book about how to read Balzac, to love reading him, and to engage his vast work.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations (color).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780191964558 0191964557