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Balzac: A Biography
Ever wonder what it’s like to be brilliant, broke, and hopelessly tangled in your own messy life? Honoré de Balzac was all that and more. Graham Robb’s biography peels back the layers on a guy who wrote the 19th century’s ultimate family soap opera, while juggling debts, love letters, and literary experiments that mostly flopped before he hit the jackpot.
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