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The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

La Comédie Humaine #39

Honoré de Balzac with Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)

302 pages first pub 1837 (view editions)

fiction classics mysterious slow-paced
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One of the unifying themes that wends its way through Honore de Balzac's immense body of work is the corrupting danger of greed-and the often-absurd lengths to which people will go to secure material wealth. In the wonderful novel Rise and Fall of...

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