Honoré de Balzac

Peter Brooks has taught mainly at Yale University, where he is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus; he has held positions also at the University of Virginia, Princeton University, the universities of Oxford, Bologna, and Copenhagen.

• 1: Balzac: Reading for More 2: Fangs and Kisses 3: Making Books, Devouring Presses 4: The Shape of Time 5: To Say Everything Acknowledgements Further Reading Notes Index

Brooks never ceases to intrigue readers by his deeply probing work of literary and critical scholarship.