The Human Comedy - Honoré de Balzac Translator: Natasha Wimmer

Translator: Natasha Wimmer

from troop doctor to revolutionary icon

Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life’s challenges

One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents' reign of terror and turns to school for salvation

animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous

The Human Comedy - Honoré de Balzac Translator: Natasha WimmerCharacters from every corner of society and all walks of life lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzacs multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendour and squalor. Original Language: French Translator: Linda