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Honoré de Balzac

Born

in Tours, France

May 20, 1799

Died

August 18, 1850

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

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French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

Honoré de Balzac authored 19th-century novels and plays. After the fall of Napoléon in 1815, his magnum opus, a sequence of almost a hundred novels and plays, entitled, presents life in the years.

Due to keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation, European literature regards Balzac. He features renowned multifaceted, even complex, morally ambiguous, full lesser characters. Character well imbues inanimate objects; the city of Paris, a backdrop, takes on many qualities. He influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Mar ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 223,654 ratings · 16,568 reviews · 9,536 distinct works • Similar authors

	Père Goriot 3.85 avg rating — 66,610 ratings — published 1835 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eugénie Grandet 3.79 avg rating — 25,748 ratings — published 1833 — 1721 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Illusions 4.16 avg rating — 12,471 ratings — published 1843 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild Ass's Skin 3.68 avg rating — 11,751 ratings — published 1831 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cousin Bette 3.85 avg rating — 10,674 ratings — published 1846 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vadideki Zambak 3.72 avg rating — 7,738 ratings — published 1835 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Colonel Chabert 3.59 avg rating — 7,292 ratings — published 1832 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard (Translator), Arthur C. Danto (Introduction) 3.81 avg rating — 6,243 ratings — published 1831 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman Of Thirty 3.44 avg rating — 6,706 ratings — published 1834 — 107 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Harlot High and Low 4.05 avg rating — 3,807 ratings — published 1838 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie Humaine (89 books)
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3.77 avg rating — 203,251 ratings

Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie de province (10 books)
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3.90 avg rating — 42,648 ratings

Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie parisienne (20 books)
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3.76 avg rating — 26,470 ratings

Études philosophiques (19 books)
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3.65 avg rating — 24,702 ratings

Poor Relations (2 books)
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Herbert J. Hunt (Translator)

3.87 avg rating — 12,361 ratings

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Quotes by Honoré de Balzac (?)

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

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“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

3105 likes

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

tags: human-nature, love

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Polls

September 2015 Old School Classic Poll

1857, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 329 pages

32 votes, 21.3%

1869, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, 394 pages

25 votes, 16.7%

1831, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, 614 pages

23 votes, 15.3%

-850, The Odyssey by Homer, 560 pages

19 votes, 12.7%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 432 pages

15 votes, 10.0%

1853, Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell, 432 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1887, The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, 464 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1833, Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1880, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, 352 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1882, Atlantis: The Antideluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly, 528 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

1795, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 396 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

150 total votes

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