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Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently... Read Full Overview

The criminal as superman: Balzac's fascination with crime as the obverse of society and because the criminal epitomizes the shapeshifting of modernism. There's also a heavily gothic element to these stories. Balzac distinguishes his novellas from 'traditional' gothic because... Read Full Overview

Honor? de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Com?die humaine , which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to... Read Full Overview

The criminal as superman: Balzac's fascination with crime as the obverse of society and because the criminal epitomizes the shapeshifting of modernism. There's also a heavily gothic element to these stories. Balzac distinguishes his novellas from 'traditional' gothic because... Read Full Overview

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality... Read Full Overview

""The Thirteen"" is a collection of short stories written by French author Honore De Balzac. The book consists of thirteen stories, each of which features a different character from a secret society known as ""The Thirteen."" The society is made up of powerful and influential... Read Full Overview

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"The Thirteen" from Honore De Balzac. French novelist and playwright (1799-1850).

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Histoire des Treize: Sc�����nes de la Vie Parisienne (1876) est un roman de l'�����crivain fran�����ais Honor����� de Balzac. Il s'agit... Read Full Overview