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Peter Brooks
Honore de Balzac

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A book on the experience of reading Honore de Balzac’s La Comedie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks’s own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors 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. This volume shows readers how to read, and to love reading, Balzac, and how to engage with his vast work.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 172 ● ISBN 9780192662095 ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8496518 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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