The bachelor's house

Pages: 319
Published: 1956
Language: English

Two brothers could not be more different: one is a dedicated artist, the other a disgraced Napoleonic soldier with a taste for trouble. When their wealthy uncle's inheritance is threatened by his scheming housekeeper, the family's loyalties are put to the test. The brothers are drawn into a bitter conflict for the fortune, a struggle that will expose the depths of greed and betrayal in provincial France.

Prose complexity: 10/10

Dark Gritty Satirical Thought-Provoking

Family Saga Morally Grey Betrayal Rivals

Classics Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac