{"product_id":"the-human-comedyisbn-9780679417163","title":"The Human Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a painfully drawn portrayal of private life, but its wider subject-matter also makes it a fictional document of post-revolutionary France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its own condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R. Jameson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. His publications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures of the Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works \u003ci\u003eThe Human Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas \u003ci\u003epère\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003efils\u003c\/i\u003e, Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304556679397,"sku":"NP9780679417163","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679417163.jpg?v=1730757754","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-human-comedyisbn-9780679417163","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}