Mike's Reviews > The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

The two issues I had with this collection were the selections (some very weak -- almost filler, in the case of “Another Study of Womankind”) and the translations, which occasionally did not improve on previous older translations -- not because these translations were particularly bad, but because the previous translations were adequate enough. I’m glad I encountered Balzac in other longer works before picking up this book because if I had started here, I may not have been motivated to dig deeper into his body of work.