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THE BANKRUPT
The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau
Honoré
de BALZAC
One of the
most compelling episodes of Balzac's 'Human Comedy', in which
Parisian perfumer César Birotteau gets in more trouble
than he can handle by involving himself in a land deal.
"Are
you certain that your soul has had its full development ? Do
you breathe in air through every pore of it ? Do your eyes see
all they can see?"
Honoré
de Balzac
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ISBN
978-1-906904-05-0
= PDF eBook =
$19-95
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"Here
is the first and one of the most ambitious of our realistic modern
novelists, the planner and architect of the Human Comedy, the
novelist of society itself, in Paris or the provinces, town and
country, high life, low life, finance, politics, fashionable
intrigues, occult researches, everybody, everything"
J.B.Priestley
"He
has seen all and said all, comprehended all and divined all."
George
Sand
"Perhaps
the greatest name in the post-revolutionary literature of France"
Encyclopaedia Britannica
"Balzac
is the immortal Homer of the Modern World"
de Banville
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