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For this volume, Sylvia Raphael has chosen twelve stories, including 'An Incident in the Reign of Terror, ' 'The Athiest's Mass,' and 'The Red Inn.' All of them reveal Balzac's ability to excite curiosity (as she comments, 'it was not for nothing the Balzac was called the father of the detective story'), his intuitive grasp of what made other lives tick and his instinctive understanding of the contradictions in human behavior.
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