num_pages: 521
description: A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Honore+a7 de Balzac's early literary disappointments, harebrained entrepreneurial schemes, love affairs, fantasies, correspondences, and achievements.
language: English
title: Balzac: A Life
titlecomplete: Balzac: A Life
characters: Honoré de Balzac
genres: France, History, Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 103
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc