The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 656 pages and is available in paperback format. Publication date 1855 collection europeanlibraries digitizing sponsor. When they started this project, there was only one story available. The clerks are on a break which consists of eating a snack and throwing bread spitballs. His father, born bernardfrancois balssa, was one of eleven children from an artisan family in tarn, a region in the south of france. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Le colonel chabert colonel chabert the novel opens with a humorous scene set in the office of paris attorney derville. Simonnin, an errand boy is described as a street urchinand they are different in paris than anywhere else on. Although some characters appear in many of the novels, they can be read in any order. The original french titles are followed by their english equivalents. If youd like to help expand it, see the help pages and the. Oct 28, 2012 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
The balzac yahoo group was created in honor of the bicentennial of balzacs birth. Nov 23, 2012 open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Authors introduction to the human comedy, 1842 see also repertory of the comedie humaine for a comprehensive index of characters. Set in mid19thcentury paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middleaged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Themisfortunes of the two birotteaus, the priest and the perfumer, to me are those of mankind. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories. John, in new zealand, had the katherine prescott wormeley edition, and dagny in the us.