Characters

Tools to familiarize yourself with the characters of the Comedie Humaine.

Character Types

...by composing types out of a combination of homogeneous characteristics, I might perhaps succeed in writing the history which so many historians have neglected: that of Manners. (Balzac, 1842 Introduction, Project Gutenberg: hciaa10.txt)

Character Repertory

The web of details that binds characters together into social constellations.

Gallery of Prose Descriptions