A Murky Business by Honoré de Balzac, Herbert J. Hunt

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fiction classics historical mystery dark slow-paced
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Characterized by amoral ruthlessness, the politics of A Murky Business would seem to bear out Balzac's questionable precept.Set earlier than most of Balzac's Comedie Humaine, the novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napolean was making himself firs...

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