Stories by Honoré de Balzac (1909)

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Balzac, Honoré de	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Gavin, Jessie	Frontispiece	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ransome, Arthur	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The world's story tellers (1909)

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Canonical title

Stories by Honoré de Balzac

Original title

Alternative titles

Stories by Balzac

Original publication date

1909

People/Characters

Honoré de Balzac

Important places

France

Important events

Reign of Terror (1793)

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Epigraph

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Dedication

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First words

Honoré de Balzac was born at Tours on May 20, 1799, the son of a barrister, whose principal passion seems to have been for a longevity that would let him reap the benefit of a tontine.

Summarised chronology.

Balzac used to tell a story of his father, who, when asked to carve a partridge, not knowing how to set about it, rolled up his sleeves, gripped his knife and fork, and cut it in four with such energy as to cleave the plate at the same time and embed the knife in the table.

Introductory essay.

Towards the end of the year 1612, on a cold December morning, a young man in very threadbare garments was walking up and down before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris.

The unknown masterpiece.

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Disambiguation notice

This book (ed. Arthur Ransome) contains the stories 'The unknown masterpiece', 'The athiest's mass', 'An episode of the Reign of Terror', 'Facino Cane' and 'La grande bretèche'. Please do not combine with different combinations of stories.

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Original language

English

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