The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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.
Are you not sad your children's fathers
Go endlessly off soldiering afar
In this plodding war? I am willing to wager
There's not one here whose husband is at home.
CALONICE
Mine's been in Thrace, keeping an eye on Eucrates
For five months past.
MYRRHINE
And mine left me for Pylos
Seven months ago at least.
LAMPITO
And as for mine
No sooner has he slipped out frae the line
He straps his shield and he's snickt off again.
LYSISTRATA
And not the slightest glitter of a lover!
And since the Milesians betrayed us, I've not seen
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.