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Histoire de la grandeur et de la dŽcadence de CŽsar Birotteau by BALZAC, HonorŽ de
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Book description: Paris: Chez L'Editeur, Rue Coq-HŽron, 1838. First edition. Two octavo volumes. 16 pp. advertisments, 354, [3, errata], [1, blank], [1, ÒTable des Matires"], [1, blank]; 337, [1, blank], [13, ÒTable des Matires," errata, Malheurs et aventures de CŽsar Birotteau avant sa naissance par ƒdouard Ourliac, and ads for other works by Balzac], [1, blank] pp. Original printed yellow printed wrappers, sympathetically rebacked to style. A lovely copy. One of the novels of Balzac's massive ComŽdie humaine, this title being one of the Scenes de la vie parisienne. Here Balzac consciously pioneers a new genre -- the tragedy of the little man. As he writes, ÒMay the present volume be the poem of those vicissitudes of bourgeois life that no voice has thought to sing, so much are they denuded of grandeur, though by the same token immense: what we speak of here is not a single man, but a whole nation of suffering." A very rare work in the original wrappers. George, p. 42. Vicaire I, col. 210.
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