A ministry clerk of real ability is up for a vacant headship, and his wife runs a salon to get it for him — against a colleague who has understood that in an office the work is not the point. Balzac wrote at night on fifty cups of coffee a day and died at fifty-one having built the Human Comedy; this is his anatomy of the civil service, and every reader who has ever worked in an institution will recognise the machinery.
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100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal : Edición enriquecida. Viaje intertemporal por iconos mundiales y el diálogo cultural histórico
La piel de zapa
100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal
100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal : Edición enriquecida. Explorando la diversidad literaria a lo largo de los siglos
Ferragus : Jefe de los Devorantes
La piel de zapa
Un asunto tenebroso
Esplendores y miserias de las cortesanas
Cuentos filosóficos
La obra maestra desconocida
Eugenia Grandet
La piel de zapa
