This edition features • three complete books • a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSCOUSIN BETTY, POOR RELATIONS:—I. COUSIN PONS, POOR RELATIONS:—II.THE LESSER BOURGEOISIE, THE MIDDLE CLASSES About the Author"Honoré de Balzac (1799 – 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte ... La Comédie Humaine included in it all the fiction that Balzac had published in his lifetime under his own name. This was to be Balzac's life work and his greatest achievement."--Wikipedia