Three works from Balzac’s Human Comedy united by bachelors and old maids. In Pierrette a Breton orphan suffers under a pair of retired haberdashers in Provins; The Vicar of Tours follows a mild priest undone by a spinster landlady; and The Two Brothers sets the painter Joseph Bridau against his brutal soldier brother Philippe.
Includes The Two Brothers, often called one of Balzac’s masterpieces. Download the free EPUB.