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The Unknown Masterpiece (New York Review Books Classics) (Updated Edition) by Richard Howard (Translator), Arthur C. Danto (Introduction), Honoré De Balzac, Arthur Coleman Danto Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-940322-74-9 / 0940322749 ISBN-13: 978-0-940322-74-5 / 9780940322745 Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels. H |