At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Honoré de Balzac

• Stories
• Book language: English
• 54 pages

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a novella from Balzac's La Comédie humaine, set around an old Parisian draper's shop. It follows a shopkeeper's family, especially a daughter, and the social and emotional tensions when she marries an artist. A subtle study of class, art, and domestic life.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.