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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, Fiction, Classics by Honoré de Balzac

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, Fiction, Classics

La Comédie Humaine #39

Honoré de Balzac with Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)

264 pages first pub 1837 (editions)

fiction classics mysterious slow-paced
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Balzac kept a rough draft of the novel for six years before completing it in 1837 after being offered 20,000 Francs by Le Figaro, provided it was ready to appear before December 15 that year. Explaining the delay he would later write "For six year...

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