Honoré de Balzac
- Books on site
- 1
- Total words
- 88,000
- Reading time
- 4.9 h
- Years covered
- 1835
- Longest
- Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist who built La Comédie humaine, a linked cycle of nearly a hundred works describing French society after 1815. His realistic detail set the standard for the nineteenth-century novel.
1free edition88,000words on site~4.9 hreading time1835years covered
Father Goriot| Year | Title | Words | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1835 | Father Goriot | 88,000 | ~6 h |
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