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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

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First published: 1829
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In this early gem of his vast Human Comedy, Balzac tells the story of a beautiful draper's daughter who marries above her station to an ambitious painter, only to find that love and marriage across the divides of class and temperament bring disillusion and quiet tragedy. With his penetrating eye for money, ambition, and the textures of Parisian life, Balzac turns a modest domestic tale into a keen study of society and the human heart. Compact and masterful, it showcases the realism and psychological depth that make him one of the giants of the novel. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a perfect miniature introduction to Balzac's incomparable world.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.