Balzac's World
Resources
Reader's Guide
Characters
Text Data Mining
Bio
Material to supplement your reading of Balzac's Comedy Humaine including plot summaries, chronologies, character lists, and computer programs.
Texts
French.English Translation
English Translation (PDF)
Meta-Texts
Friedrich Engels: On Balzac as History and Ethnography1842 Introduction to the Comedie Humaine
Ideas
Balzac's World: Ethnography and HistoryBalzac's World: Simulation
Lists
Debtors in BalzacCareers of Young Men in Balzac