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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Human Comedy, by Honore de Balzac This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Human Comedy Introductions and Appendix Author: Honore de Balzac Commentator: George Saintsbury Release Date: November, 1999 [Etext #1968] Posting Date: March 8, 2010 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUMAN COMEDY *** Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny THE HUMAN COMEDY INTRODUCTIONS AND APPENDIX By Honore De Balzac Note: This reposting is dedicated to Dagny, who, 10 years ago, was part of the "Balzac Team" which produced 113 eBooks for Project Gutenberg. I cannot locate her present email address to thank her for the extraordinarily fine work she did at a time when we had none of the present easy programs to help locate errors--and to notify her that all her Balzac files have been rechecked and reposted. DW CONTENTS Honore de Balzac Introduction and brief biography by George Saintsbury. Appendix List of titles in French with English translations and grouped in the various classifications. Author's introduction Balzac's 1842 introduction to The Human Comedy. HONORE DE BALZAC _"Sans genie, je suis flambe!"_ Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an early letter to his sister when as yet he had not "found his way," characterize him, I think, better than at least some of the volumes I have read about him, and supply, when they are properly understood, the most valuable of all keys and companions for his comprehension. "If I have not genius, it is all up with me!" A very matter-of-fact person may say: "Why! there is nothing wonderful in this. Everybody knows what genius is wanted to make a name in literature, and most people think they have it." But this
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