Book: The Alkahest: The Quest Of The Absolute Philosophical Study' from La Comidie Humaine (The Human Comedy). By the French novelist who is regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of novels and stories, collectively entitled La Comidie Humaine (The Human Comedy), is a broad panorama of French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848). His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
Details of Book: The Alkahest: The Quest Of The Absolute Book: The Alkahest: The Quest Of The Absolute
Author: Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley
ISBN: 1406505838
ISBN-13: 9781406505832
, 978-1406505832
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 28032006
Publisher: Dodo Press
Number of Pages: 200
Language: English