HONORÉ DE BALZAC THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE A SEASHORE DRAMA AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR LA GRANDE BRETÈCHE THE CONSCRIPT A PASSION IN THE DESERT Balzac's short stories, which we call in French _nouvelles_, are, generally speaking, not the best-known or the most popular part of his work; nor are they the part best fitted to give a true and complete idea of his genius. But some of them are none the less masterpieces in their kind; they have characteristics and a significance not always possessed by their author's long novels, such as _Eugénie Grandet_ or _Cousin Pons;_ and finally, for this very reason, they hold in the unfinished structure of _The Human Comedy_ a place which it wil…
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