num_pages: 311
description: Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). Contains The Calvinist Martyr, The Ruggieri's Secret and The Two Dreams. 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.
language: English
title: Catherine De' Medici
titlecomplete: Catherine De' Medici
characters: Émile Blondet, Horace Bianchon, Felicité des Touches, Félix de Vandenesse, Delphine de Nucingen, Eugène de Rastignac, Armand de Montriveau, Lady Arabela Dudley, Melchior de Canalis, Daniel d'Arthez, Henri de Marsay, Lord Dudley
genres: France, Biography, French Literature, Classic Literature, Nonfiction, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Unfinished, History
ratings_count: 568
series: La Comédie Humaine, Études philosophiques
publisher: Dodo Pr