Christ in Flanders and Other Stories Author:Honore de Balzac 1908. This is No. 284 of Everyman's Library. Almost all the pieces herein contained were early work, written when Balzac was under the combined excitement of his emergence from the valley of the shadow in which he had toiled so long, and of the heat and stress of the political and literary Revolution of 1830. All of them show his very freshest m... more »atured power, not as yet in the slightest degree sicklied over by any excessive attempt to codify or systematize.« less