Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac

Colonel Chabert

La Comédie Humaine #24

Honoré de Balzac with Andrew Brown (Translator)

114 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

fiction classics challenging reflective sad slow-paced
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An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a rec...

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