One of this writer's plays features the title character's desire towards Ferdinand, despite being married to his lover's father, while another sees the title character become wealthy after she provides an alibi (by pretending to be his mistress) for Jules Rousseau.
One of this writer's plays features the title character's desire towards Ferdinand, despite being married to his lover's father, while another sees the title character become wealthy after she provides an alibi (by pretending to be his mistress) for Jules Rousseau. In addition to The Stepmother, which ends in Pauline and Ferdinand's deaths, and Pamela Giraud, this author wrote a novel in which the title object shrinks under the strain of fulfilling its owner's every desire, until Raphael de Valentin dies after making love to his one true desire, and another one in which the title character dies without his two daughters that he had given everything for, instead, Eugene de Rastignac is at his deathbed. The Wild Ass' Skin and La Pere Goriot, are part of, for 10 points, The Human Comedy, a collection of novels by what French author?
One of this writer's plays features the title character's desire towards Ferdinand, despite being married to his lover's father, while another sees the title character become wealthy after she provides an alibi (by pretending to be his mistress) for Jules Rousseau.
Honore de {Balzac}