# Balzac's Lives

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- Book: [Balzac's Lives](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks/balzacs-lives) ([Balzac's Lives.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks/balzacs-lives.md))
- Authors: [Peter Brooks](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks)
- Publisher: new_york_review_books
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-449-9
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2020-10-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era,...