Honore de Balzac 
Resources of Quinola 

Today, French writer Honore de Balzac is best remembered for The Human Comedy, a sprawling story cycle in which he attempted — and some would argue, succeeded — to capture the ebb and flow of everyday life in nineteenth-century Europe. But Balzac was an intrepid literary experimenter, and his prolific output encompassed every form and genre. The Resources of Quinola is a drama set in the Spanish Inquisition.