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A Man of Business, Honore de Balzac

Label
A Man of Business, Honore de Balzac
Language
eng
Main title
A Man of Business
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Honore de Balzac
Summary
Though a relatively short story, A Man of Business is an important component of Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy , involving many of the recurring characters from the series and tying up a number of loose ends. As a fete thrown at the home of his mistress begins to wind down, Cardot invites the lingering merrymakers to settle around the table and begins telling a story about a clever debt-collection scheme