# Short-story masterpieces, Vol. 2

Author: Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg), 1867-1946 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73859

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Short-story+masterpieces%2C+Vol.+2+Esenwein&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Honoré Balzac, or de Balzac, as he loved to call himself--though really there was no “noble” blood in his veins--was baptized under the name of Balssa. He was born on May 20, 1799, at Tours. His mother, Laure Sallambier, was a Parisian; his father, a provincial from Languedoc. After completing his studies in Paris, Honoré began the study of law at the age of seventeen, but after eighteen months’ apprenticeship to an attorney and a second year and a half’s service to a notary, his literary ambition began to turn him away from the law. Already at the age of twenty he had conceived the idea of a drama on Cromwell, but after fifteen months’ labor, he read it to a company of friends who receiv...

## Chapters

- [VOLUME II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-2-73859/chapters/2/index.md)
- [VOLUME II--FRENCH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/short-story-masterpieces-vol-2-73859/chapters/1/index.md)