The Human Comedy

Enter the vast, intricate world of Honoré de Balzac, the literary architect of modern realism. The Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine) is one of the greatest achievements in world literature — a sweeping panorama of 19th-century French society captured in unforgettable detail.

Across more than ninety novels and stories, Balzac paints a living portrait of ambition, love, greed, corruption, and redemption. From the glittering salons of Paris to the quiet desperation of provincial life, his characters — bankers, artists, courtesans, dreamers, and scoundrels — form an entire universe that mirrors the human soul.

This definitive collection includes Balzac's most celebrated works such as Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, Cousin Bette, The Wild Ass's Skin, and many more — all woven together by themes of power, destiny, and desire.

Admired by writers from Marcel Proust to Charles Dickens and Émile Zola, Balzac's genius lies in his fearless truthfulness and his astonishing psychological depth. His stories reveal not only the faces of his age, but the eternal patterns of human behavior that still define us today.

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    Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo, MyBooks Classics

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  2. Konungens älskarinna och andra lustiga historier

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  3. Pappa Goriot

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  4. Father Goriot

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  5. 50 Masterpieces you need to read

    Louisa, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Icarus

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  6. Father Goriot

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  7. 1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century

    Honoré de Balzac, François-René de Chateaubriand, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, François de la Rochefoucauld, Alphonse de Lamartine, Guy De Maupassant, Alfred de Musset, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Stendhal

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  8. Le Médecin de campagne

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  9. Cousin Bette

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  10. 50 Masterpieces you have to read

    Louisa, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Masterpiece Everywhere

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  11. 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

    Louisa, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo, knowledge house

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  12. 7 best short stories - French Authors

    Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Villiers l'Isle de Adam, Guy De Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, Jules Verne, August Nemo

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