After one of this author's characters gets trapped in a loveless marriage with the lawyer Cruchot, she sends a gold-plated cabinet back to her lover Felix.
After one of this author's characters gets trapped in a loveless marriage with the lawyer Cruchot, she sends a gold-plated cabinet back to her lover Felix. In another of this author's novels, Pauline consummates her love with Raphel de Valentin, who possesses the title talisman. Another of this man's works concerns a plot hatched when Baron Fulot's daughter gets engaged to Steinbock by the title figure, (*) Lisabeth Fischer. In the book S/Z, Roland Barthes analyzed "Sarrasine," a short story by this creator of the criminal Vautrin and Eugenie Grandet. Delphine begins seeing Eugene de Rastignac and doesn't attend her doting father's funeral in a work by this man collected with The Wild Ass's Skin and Cousin Bette. For 10 points, name this author who included Pere Goriot in his massive Human Comedy.
After one of this author's characters gets trapped in a loveless marriage with the lawyer Cruchot, she sends a gold-plated cabinet back to her lover Felix.
Honore de Balzac