Albert Savarus

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A lawyer, Albert Savarus, descends quietly upon a small town, closed in it's small town ways to the intrusions of outsiders. Nobody notices him until a legal case is inadvertently placed in his hands and he wins it and another and another. He attracts the attention of merchants in the town who give him their cases and that of a young woman who procedes to fall in love with him and thoroughly investigate his mysterious life.

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Bio of Honore de Balzac

Born on May 20, 1799, Honore de Balzac is considered one of the greatest French writers of all time. Balzac studied in Paris and worked as a law clerk while pursuing an unsuccessful career as an author. He soon accumulated enormous debts that haunted him most of his life. A prolific writer, Balzac would often write for 14 to-16 hours at a time. His writing is marked by realistic portrayals of ordinary, but exaggerated characters and intricate detail. In 1834, Balzac began organizing his works into a collection called The Human Comedy, an attempt to group his novels to present a complete social history of France. Characters in this project reappeared throughout various volumes, which ultimately consisted of approximately 90 works. Some of his works include Cesar Birotteau, Le Cousin Pons, Seraphita, and Le Cousine Bette. Balzac wed his lifelong love, Eveline Hanska in March 1850 although he was gravely ill at the time. Balzac died in August of that year.

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CONNECT eBooks Classics

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464.90 KB

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eBook ISBN

9781434004789

Excerpt from: Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac