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A Start in Life

by Honore de Balzac
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. In much of Balzac's work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who are mercilessly skewered when what starts out as a harmless prank rapidly snowballs into a comedy of errors with profound consequences.

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Series: The Human Comedy Publisher: Duke Classics

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  • ISBN: 9781620139684
  • Release date: July 8, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781620139684
  • File size: 356 KB
  • Release date: July 8, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781620139684
  • File size: 353 KB
  • Release date: July 8, 2014

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Classic Literature Fiction

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English

The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. In much of Balzac's work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who are mercilessly skewered when what starts out as a harmless prank rapidly snowballs into a comedy of errors with profound consequences.

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Classic Literature Fiction