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History of the Thirteen

Name: History of the Thirteen
Author: Honore de Balzac
ISBN: 9780140443011

by Honore de Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt (Editor), Herbert J. Hunt

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Overview

This trilogy of stories -- "Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty," "The Duchesse De Langeais," and "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" -- purporting to be the history of a secret society, laid the foundation for Balzac’s Scenes of Parisian Life and is a stunning evocation of all ranks of society.

Synopsis

This trilogy of stories -- "Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty," "The Duchesse De Langeais," and "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" -- purporting to be the history of a secret society, laid the foundation for Balzac s Scenes of Parisian Life and is a stunning evocation of all ranks of society.

About the Author, Honore de Balzac

The 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 The Human Comedy. Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils, 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.