About this title: A collection of humorous stories. By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boni & Liveright, New York
Date published: 1928
Description: Very Good. 2 v. : ports.; 23 cm. "This edition...is limited to 2, 050 numbered sets...The plates of the illustrations will be destroyed after printing. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing
Date published: 1928
Description: Fair in Tattered and Torn Edges jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Cover and pages clean. binding secure. dust jacket clean, edges tattered and torn. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bell Publishing
Date published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780517226346ISBN:0517226340
Description: Good. Hardcover With Dust Jacket. Some Wear To The Edges/Corners Of The Dust Jacket. Clean Pages. Great Customer Service. We Stand Behind All Of Our Products. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, [New York]
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. 5-11-09 TP BX 14. xi, 553 p. Modern library of the world's best books.. Translated by G.R. Sims; translator's pref. dated 1874. First published in the Modern Library edition in 1931. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date published: 1955
Description: Good Plus. T-102. Light creasing and rubbing to covers; sound copy; pages tanning else very good. Red and gold edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Inventory No: 028926. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon Books
Date published: 1955
Description: Fair. Fair paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked, though tanned. Binding is cracking with pages loosening but still intact. Covers show edge wear with creases and rubbing. Still very readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heritage Press
Date published: 1939
Description: Very Good. NO JACKET. VG/NO DJ, light wear to covers noted, bookplate on inside of front cover, blindstamp on endpaper, interior clean, binding holding well, slipcase shows some wear but is still very sturdy, oversized. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing
Date published: 1946
Description: Good / None. 266 pp. Originally published 1928. Edited by Ernest Boyd. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Two volumes in one. Contents VG. Some tanning to pages. No jacket. Rubbing, fading to covers. read more
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