THE HUMAN COMEDY:
INTRODUCTIONS AND APPENDIX



CONTENTS

Honore de Balzac
Introduction and brief biography by George Saintsbury.

Appendix
List of titles in French with English translations and grouped
in the various classifications.

Author's introduction
Balzac's 1842 introduction to The Human Comedy.





HONORE DE BALZAC



_"Sans genie, je suis flambe!"_

Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps
of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all,
is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in