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The Alkahest: The Quest of the Absolute - De Balzac, Honore, and Wormeley, Katharine Prescott (Translated by)
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Philosophical Study' from La Com???die Humaine (The Human Comedy). By the French novelist who is regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of novels and stories, collectively entitled La Com???die Humaine (The Human Comedy), is a broad panorama of French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848). 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, ...

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The Alkahest: The Quest of the Absolute 2006, Dodo Press, Gloucester

ISBN-13: 9781406505832

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