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22 September 2000
576 pages
9780330320153
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Graham Robb does a superb job in bringing Balzac to life in all his preposterousness, while still letting us appreciate his genius.
Robb’s Balzac is a fine achievement: an impressive work of scholarship and an enormously enjoyable read. In a well-paced narrative, he blends solid evidence with amusing anecdote, patient evaluation with witty aside.
Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to its subject.