Colonel Chabert, Gobseck, Sarrasine and The Unknown Masterpiece

Four novellas and the introductions Balzac wrote for the Human Comedy: a colonel who returns from the dead to find his wife remarried, a usurer who is the most frightening man in Paris, Sarrasine, and The Unknown Masterpiece, the story about a painting that made Cézanne say that man is me. This edition adds a gallery of 46 plates after Daumier, Gavarni, Delacroix and Godefroy, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured, in the translations of Clara Bell and Ellen Marriage.