Among the lesser known works of this series are The Quest for the Absolute and The Village Curate.  
Among the lesser known works of this series are The Quest for the Absolute and The Village Curate.  It also includes such early novellas as Madame Firmian and Colonel Chabert, but the series is often considered to have begun with a historical novel of counterrevolutionaries entitled Les Chouans [lay shoo-ON].  The more famous works, such as Lost Illusions, feature such recurring characters as the criminal Vautrin who, along with the ambitious Eugene Rastignac, appears in the best-known member of the series, Pere Goriot.  FTP, name this cycle of 90 novels and novellas, the masterwork of Honore Balzac.
Among the lesser known works of this series are The Quest for the Absolute and The Village Curate.  
The Human Comedy or La Comedie humaine