Balzac
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 521
ISBN-13: 9780330332378
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; French
First sentence: NOTHING IS insignificant,' Balzac declares, characteristically - the mother's diet, the father's virility, and, most important of all, the 'posture' of the parents at the moment of conception.