DEDICATED,

In remembrance of many pleasant and instructive hours spent in his society, to the sculptor

AUGUSTE RODIN,

whose statue of Balzac, with its fine, synthetic portraiture, first tempted the author to write this book.

PASSY, PARIS, 1910.

Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I: Introduction
• Chapter II: Boyhood
• Chapter III: Experiments in Literature and Business
• Chapter IV: First Successes and Fame
• Chapter V: Letters to "The Stranger," 1831, 1832
• Chapter VI: Letters to "The Stranger," 1833, 1834
• Chapter VII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1835, 1836
• Chapter VIII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1837, 1838
• Chapter IX: Letters to "The Stranger," 1839, 1840
• Chapter X: Letters to "The Stranger," 1841, 1842
• Chapter XI: Letters to "The Stranger," 1843, 1844
• Chapter XII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1845, 1846
• Chapter XIII: Last Years, Marriage and Death
• Chapter XIV: The Comedie Humaine
• Chapter XV: Value of the Work
• Chapter XVI: The Influence
• Chapter XVII: Conclusion, the Man and his Portraits

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