Haringey, inner borough of London, England, part of the historic county of Middlesex. It is located north of Islington and Hackney and south of Enfield. Haringey was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former boroughs of Hornsey, Tottenham, and Wood Green. Haringey includes such

Madhumati River: …km) wide, is called the Haringhata. The Madhumati is one of the largest of the Padma distributaries in the southern part of the Gangetic Plain, and it offers the best navigation conditions of any river at the head of the Bay of Bengal.

James Harrington was an English political philosopher whose major work, The Common-wealth of Oceana (1656), was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of constitutional stability and revolution. Although Harrington was sympathetic to republicanism, he was a devoted friend of King Charles I and was

Sir John Harington was an English Elizabethan courtier, translator, author, and wit who also invented the flush toilet. Harington’s father enriched the family by marrying an illegitimate daughter of Henry VIII; his second wife was an attendant to the Princess Elizabeth, who stood as godmother for

Haring Estuary, freshwater channel, southwestern Netherlands. A distributary of the Hollands Diep, it ultimately (through other streams) has its origin in the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River. The Haring flows for about 20 miles (32 km) between the joined islands of Voorne and Putten and the island

Thomas Harriot was a mathematician, astronomer, and investigator of the natural world. Little is known of him before he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford in 1580. Throughout his working life, he was supported by the patronage, at different times, of Sir Walter Raleigh and

Haripunjaya, an ancient Mon kingdom centred in the Mae Nam (river) Ping Valley in northwestern Thailand. It was founded in the mid-7th century by a queen of Lopburi, the capital of the Mon Dvaravati kingdom to the south. Although originally established as a colony of Dvaravati, Haripunjaya

Morocco: Daily life and social customs: Harira, a thick and hearty lamb soup, is served to break the fast at Ramadan and is a national speciality. The national drink is mint tea. Morocco is a wine-producing country, but production had begun to decline by the early 21st century under religious pressure…

al-Ḥarīrī was a scholar of Arabic language and literature and government official who is primarily known for the refined style and wit of his collection of tales, the Maqāmāt, published in English as The Assemblies of al-Harîrî (1867, 1898). His works include a long poem on grammar (Mulḥat al-iʿrāb

Rafic al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992–98; 2000–04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political tensions between Lebanon and Syria, leading

Rafic al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992–98; 2000–04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political tensions between Lebanon and Syria, leading

Rafic al-Hariri was a Lebanese businessman, politician, and philanthropist who, as prime minister of Lebanon (1992–98; 2000–04), was instrumental in rebuilding the country after its protracted civil war. His assassination in 2005 fomented political tensions between Lebanon and Syria, leading

Saad al-Hariri is a Saudi-born Lebanese businessman and prime minister of Lebanon (2009–11; 2016–20). The son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic al-Hariri, Saad entered politics following his father’s assassination in February 2005. Hariri received his elementary education at the school of

Saad al-Hariri is a Saudi-born Lebanese businessman and prime minister of Lebanon (2009–11; 2016–20). The son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic al-Hariri, Saad entered politics following his father’s assassination in February 2005. Hariri received his elementary education at the school of

Saad al-Hariri is a Saudi-born Lebanese businessman and prime minister of Lebanon (2009–11; 2016–20). The son of former Lebanese prime minister Rafic al-Hariri, Saad entered politics following his father’s assassination in February 2005. Hariri received his elementary education at the school of

Mari, ancient Mesopotamian city situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River in what is now Syria. Excavations, initially directed by André Parrot and begun in 1933, uncovered remains extending from about 3100 bce to the 7th century ce. The most remarkable of the discoveries was the great

Harīrūd, river, Central Asia. It rises on the western slopes of the rugged Selseleh-ye Kūh-e Bābā range, an outlier of the Hindu Kush mountains, in central Afghanistan. Flowing west past Chaghcharān and the ancient city of Herāt (whence its name is derived), then north, it forms sections of the

Herāt: The Harīrūd valley is one of the nation’s richest agricultural areas, producing grain, cotton, fruit, and other crops. The province is not entirely agricultural, however: petroleum is produced at Tīr Pol, in the west, and there is some light industry at Herāt city. The people of…

South Asian arts: Period of the Tamil Cōḷa Empire (10th–13th century): …his most mature work is Hariścandrakāvya, an unequalled reworking of an ancient Job-like story of Hariścandra, who suffered every ordeal for his love of truth. The Vīraśaiva saints’ lives and the vacana (“saying” or “prose poem”) literature were codified in a masterpiece called Śūnya Sampādane (“The Achievement of Nothing”), consisting…

Harischandra Range, eastward-extending spur of the Western Ghats, in west-central India. The range lies between the Godavari and the Bhima rivers in the northwestern Deccan plateau. With an average elevation of about 2,000 feet (600 metres), its peaks decrease in elevation gradually to the

Mahatma Gandhi: Youth: …mythology, such as Prahlada and Harishcandra—legendary embodiments of truthfulness and sacrifice—as living models.

Harishchandra was an Indian poet, dramatist, critic, and journalist, commonly referred to as the “father of modern Hindi.” His great contributions in founding a new tradition of Hindi prose were recognized even in his short lifetime, and he was admiringly called Bhartendu (“Moon of India”), an

harissa, spicy North African paste traditionally made from dried Tunisian baklouti or other peppers combined with olive oil and usually seasoned with coriander, salt, garlic, and other spices. Originally from Tunisia, harissa is widely used throughout the Maghreb region and is common in Algerian,

al-Ḥarīrī: …the words of the narrator, al-Ḥārith ibn Hammām, his repeated encounters with Abū Zayd al-Sarūjī, an unabashed confidence artist and wanderer possessing all the eloquence, grammatical knowledge, and poetic ability of al-Ḥarīrī himself. Time and again, al-Ḥārith finds Abū Zayd at the centre of a throng of people in a…

Arabic literature: Lampoon: Al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah’s contribution to the tribal and poetic joust between himself and ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm, recorded in Al-Muʿallaqāt, demonstrates one form of insult within such a context:

Ghassanid dynasty: The Ghassanid king al-Ḥārith ibn Jabalah (reigned 529–569) supported the Byzantines against Sasanian Persia and was given the title patricius in 529 by the emperor Justinian. Al-Ḥārith was a miaphysite Christian; he helped to revive the miaphysite Syrian church and supported miaphysite development despite the disapproval of Orthodox…

Kindah: Ḥujr’s grandson, al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAmr, was the most renowned of the Kindah kings. Al-Ḥārith invaded Iraq and captured al-Ḥīrah, the capital of the Lakhmid king al-Mundhir III. About 529, however, al-Mundhir regained the city and killed al-Ḥārith, together with about 50 other members of the royal family—a…

Arabic literature: Lampoon: Al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥillizah’s contribution to the tribal and poetic joust between himself and ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm, recorded in Al-Muʿallaqāt, demonstrates one form of insult within such a context:

Hārītī, in Buddhist mythology, a child-devouring ogress who is said to have been converted from her cannibalistic habits by the Buddha to become a protectress of children. He hid the youngest of her own 500 children under his begging bowl, and thus made her realize the sorrow she was causing other

Krishna: … and its 5th-century-ce appendix, the Harivamsha, and the Puranas, particularly Books X and XI of the Bhagavata-purana. They relate how Krishna (literally “black,” or “dark as a cloud”) was born into the Yadava clan, the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, who was the sister of Kamsa, the wicked king

Krishna: … and its 5th-century-ce appendix, the Harivamsha, and the Puranas, particularly Books X and XI of the Bhagavata-purana. They relate how Krishna (literally “black,” or “dark as a cloud”) was born into the Yadava clan, the son of Vasudeva and Devaki, who was the sister of Kamsa, the wicked king

Ganga dynasty: …his successors, Madhava I and Harivarman, expanded their influence by marital and military alliances with the Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Kadambas. By the end of the 8th century a dynastic dispute weakened the Gangas, but Butuga II (c. 937–960) obtained extensive territories between the Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers, ruling from Talakad…

Judah ben Solomon Harizi was a man of letters, last representative of the golden age of Spanish Hebrew poetry. He wandered through Provence and also the Middle East, translating Arabic poetry and scientific works into Hebrew. His version of the Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides is more artistic

Härjedalen, landskap (province), northern Sweden, comprising the upper valley of the Ljusnan (river) in Norrland region. It is bounded by Norway on the west, the landskap of Jämtland on the north, those of Medelpad and Hälsingland on the east, and that of Dalarna on the south. It is included in the

Joy Harjo is an American poet, writer, musician, and activist who was the first Native American to be named U.S. poet laureate (2019–22). Her poems feature Native symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a universal context. Her poetry also deals with social and personal issues, notably

fry bread: Health implications: …diabetes, poet, writer, and activist Suzan Shown Harjo (who is Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) wrote an essay in Indian Country Today recommending that Native Americans abstain from eating fry bread. Others, however, have argued that the cultural significance of fry bread outweighs potential negative impacts on health.

George W. Bush: Governor of Texas: …Bush’s sale of all his Harken stock in June 1990, just days before the company completed a second quarter with heavy losses. An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 1991 into the possibility of illegal insider trading (trading that takes advantage of information not available to the…

history of medicine: Heart surgery: …by the remarkable record of Dwight Harken, who removed 134 missiles from the chest—13 in the heart chambers—without the loss of one patient.

Jonathan Harker, fictional character, an English solicitor who travels to Transylvania on business and encounters the vampire Count Dracula in Dracula, the classic horror tale by Bram

Harkhuf was a governor of southern Upper Egypt who journeyed extensively throughout Nubia (the modern Sudan). As attested by his tomb biography, Harkhuf, a native of Elephantine, was appointed governor of the southern part of Upper Egypt and overseer of caravans under King Merenre, third king of

United States presidential election of 1992: The campaign: Tom Harkin running, the major Democratic candidates skipped the Iowa caucuses. The front-runner appeared to be Clinton, but other candidates, in particular former California governor Jerry Brown and former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas, hoped to secure the nomination. Just before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton’s…

Vietnam War: The conflict deepens: The USMACV commander Paul Harkins and U.S. Ambassador Frederick Nolting in particular continued to assure Washington that all was going well.

William Draper Harkins was an American chemist whose investigations of nuclear chemistry, particularly the structure of the nucleus, first revealed the basic process of nuclear fusion, the fundamental principle of the thermonuclear bomb. Harkins received his Ph.D. (1908) from Stanford University,

Anna M. Richardson Harkness was an American philanthropist, perhaps best remembered for establishing the Commonwealth Fund, which continues as a major foundation focusing largely on health services and medical education and research. Anna Richardson married Stephen V. Harkness, a businessman, in

Harlan, city, seat of Harlan county, southeastern Kentucky, U.S., in the Cumberland Mountains, on the Clover Fork Cumberland River. It was settled in 1819 by Virginians led by Samuel Howard and was known as Mount Pleasant until renamed in 1912 for Major Silas Harlan, who was killed during the

Barbara Kopple: Harlan County U.S.A.: In the early 1970s Kopple went to Harlan county in southeastern Kentucky to film a documentary about the Brookside coal miners’ strike. The strike began in 1973 after the miners voted to join the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in a…

Paths of Glory: Christiane Harlan, credited as Susanne Christian, played a German captive forced to serenade French soldiers in the film’s moving conclusion; she married Kubrick after the production.

John Marshall Harlan was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1877 until his death and one of the most forceful dissenters in the history of that tribunal. His best known dissents favored the rights of blacks as guaranteed, in his view, by the post-Civil War constitutional

John Marshall Harlan was a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971. He was the grandson of John Marshall Harlan, who sat on the Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. The younger John Marshall graduated from Princeton University in 1920, took his master’s degree from the University of Oxford in

Olympic: The Belfast firm of Harland and Wolff began construction of the Olympic on December 16, 1908, with the laying of the keel. After work finished on the hull and main superstructure, the Olympic was launched on October 20, 1910. At the time of its completion in 1911, the Olympic…

Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune was an American writer who achieved great success with both her romantic novels and her books and columns of advice for homemakers. Mary Hawes grew up in her hometown of Dennisville, Virginia, and from 1844 in nearby Richmond. She was well educated by private tutors and

Harlech, castle and village, Gwynedd county, historic county of Merioneth (Meirionnydd), northwestern Wales. It lies on the coast of Cardigan Bay within the western edge of Snowdonia National Park. In 1283, after defeating Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the English king Edward I began construction of a

William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech was a British politician and scholar who was active in promoting education in the British colonies. Educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford (1907), Ormsby-Gore was elected to Parliament in 1910. During World War I he served in Egypt, where he

Harlem, poem by American writer Langston Hughes, one of the best-known in American poetry. It was published in 1951 as part of his Montage of a Dream Deferred, an extended poem cycle about life in Harlem, a predominantly Black neighborhood in New York City. The 11-line poem begins with the

Harlem, district of New York City, U.S., occupying a large part of northern Manhattan. Harlem as a neighbourhood has no fixed boundaries; it may generally be said to lie between 155th Street on the north, the East and Harlem rivers on the east, 96th Street (east of Central Park) and 110th Street

Iranian art and architecture: Architecture: …of the building, called the Harlem by archaeologists, is to some extent self-explanatory. The character of the Treasury is indicated by security precautions in its planning. In this building the columns were of wood, heavily plastered and painted in bright colours. Elsewhere, columns are fluted in the Greek manner, while…

Harlem Renaissance: Drama: …successful and somewhat controversial play Harlem, a fast-paced slice of the “lower” end of Harlem life, notable for its vernacular and slang-ridden dialogue. It landed on Broadway for 93 performances, and, while it drew much praise in the white press, it had a mixed reception among Black audiences, some of…

James VanDerZee: These works were collected in The Harlem Book of the Dead (1978), with a foreword by Toni Morrison.

Augusta Savage: …the inaugural director at the Harlem Community Art Center, which was established under the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). The art center in Harlem played a crucial role in the development of many young Black artists. Savage also fought successfully for the inclusion of Black artists in WPA…

Arthur Mitchell: …he and Karel Shook founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, an integrated school, whose associated company made its debut in 1971 in New York City. Mitchell choreographed a number of ballets for the company before it disbanded in 2004; the troupe was revived in 2012. In 2009 Mitchell stepped down as…

Aaron Siskind: …Dead End: The Bowery and Harlem Document show as much concern for pure design as for the plight of his subjects. After the late 1930s, Siskind no longer photographed people, concentrating instead on architectural photography, as in his series Old Houses of Bucks County, and on natural phenomena and still…

Regina M. Anderson: …Krigwa Players evolved into the Negro Experimental Theatre (also known as the Harlem Experimental Theatre), which in 1931 produced Anderson’s one-act play Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, about a lynching that happened while people prayed in church. The next year the theatre produced her one-act play Underground, about the Underground Railroad. Both…

Harlem Globetrotters, predominantly Black professional U.S. basketball team that plays exhibition games all over the world, drawing large crowds to see the players’ spectacular ball handling and humorous antics. The team was organized in Chicago in 1926 as the all-Black Savoy Big Five. Sports

Battles of Trenton and Princeton: The British campaign of 1776: …to be known as the Battle of Harlem Heights, cost the British perhaps 90 of their light infantry, with an additional 300 wounded. The temporary check to the British advance provided a much-needed reprieve to the reeling Americans.

Harlem Hellfighters, nickname given to the 369th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War I. The French government decorated the entire unit with the Croix de Guerre, its highest award for bravery, as well as 170 additional individual medals for valor. The 369th’s battlefield

Eddie Murphy: …wrote, directed, and starred in Harlem Nights (1989), which was a critical and commercial disappointment.

Harlem race riot of 1935, a riot that occurred in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem on March 19–20, 1935. It was precipitated by a teenager’s theft of a penknife from a store and was fueled by economic hardship, racial injustice, and community mistrust of the police. It is sometimes considered

Harlem race riot of 1943, riot that occurred in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem on August 1–2, 1943. It was set off when a white police officer shot an African American soldier after he attempted to intervene in the police officer’s arrest of an African American woman for disturbing the

Harlem race riot of 1964, a six-day period of rioting that started on July 18, 1964, in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed an African American teenager. The rioting spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville in Brooklyn and to South

Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A. and Harlem Redux: …several decades later, in the Harlem Redux series (2014–17). The project reveals the profound effects wrought by gentrification in the area. The distant, impersonal color photographs showing construction sites, vendors’ stalls, and high-end cafés and restaurants, only incidentally populated by human subjects, contrast pointedly with the collective portrait of a…

Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart

Eddie Palmieri: …recorded the influential solo album Harlem River Drive (1971), which fused African American musical styles such as soul, funk, and rhythm and blues with the salsa rhythms of his own Hispanic heritage. In 1974 The Sun of Latin Music (1973) won the first Grammy Award given for best Latin recording;…

African American literature: Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen: …self-portrait “Outcast,” was collected in Harlem Shadows (1922), which some critics have called the first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Admiring McKay as well as Dunbar, Hughes exchanged McKay’s formalism for the free verse of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. Hughes also found ways to write in an…

Colson Whitehead: …book in his Harlem Trilogy, Harlem Shuffle, a crime novel that opens in 1959 and centers on a furniture salesman named Ray Carney who becomes involved in a scheme to rob a hotel. He followed up in 2023 with Crook Manifesto, which recounts Carney’s Harlem adventures in the 1970s.

Norman Lewis: …one of his best-known paintings, Harlem Turns White (1955), which shows a mass of abstracted figures at the bottom of the canvas with a white haze settling over them. It is a work that can be interpreted in any number of ways but conjures questions of identity and tensions between…

Harlem Writers Guild, group of African American writers established in New York City in 1950 as the Harlem Writers Club by ambitious young Black authors who felt excluded from the mainstream literary culture and who sought to express ethnic experiences and history in their work. Unlike their

Harlem Writers Guild, group of African American writers established in New York City in 1950 as the Harlem Writers Club by ambitious young Black authors who felt excluded from the mainstream literary culture and who sought to express ethnic experiences and history in their work. Unlike their

Dawoud Bey: Harlem, U.S.A. and Harlem Redux: …featured photographs from his series Harlem, U.S.A. (1975–79). The intimate street photographs showcase Harlem residents’ lives in their vitality and variety. Elegantly dressed women lean against police barriers on a parade route (e.g., Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY [1978] and Two Women at a Parade [1978]); barbers stand…

Pablo Picasso: Collage: …on during her illness (Harlequin [1915]) gives testimony to his grief—a half-Harlequin, half-Pierrot artist before an easel holds an unfinished canvas against a black background.

Harlequin, one of the principal stock characters of the Italian commedia dell’arte; often a facile and witty gentleman’s valet and a capricious swain of the serving maid. In the early years of the commedia (mid-16th century), the Harlequin was a zanni (a wily and covetous comic servant), and he was

harlequin beetle, (Acrocinus longimanus), large tropical American beetle with an elaborate variegated pattern of black with muted red and greenish yellow markings on its wing covers. The common name refers to the beetle’s gaudy pattern; the Latin longimanus of the species name refers to the

harlequin cabbage bug, (Murgantia histrionica), a species of insect in the stinkbug family, Pentatomidae (order Heteroptera), that sucks sap and chlorophyll from crops, such as cabbage, causing them to wilt and die. Though of tropical or subtropical origin, this insect now ranges from the Atlantic

harlequin cabbage bug, (Murgantia histrionica), a species of insect in the stinkbug family, Pentatomidae (order Heteroptera), that sucks sap and chlorophyll from crops, such as cabbage, causing them to wilt and die. Though of tropical or subtropical origin, this insect now ranges from the Atlantic

rasbora: …the most popular being the harlequin fish, or rasbora (R. heteromorpha), a reddish fish 4–5 cm (1.5–2 inches) long with a wedge-shaped black spot on each side.

toad: …which are also known as variegated toads (Atelopus), are found in South and Central America. They are commonly triangular-headed and have enlarged hind feet. Some are brightly coloured in black with yellow, red, or green. When molested, the small poisonous Melanophryniscus stelzneri of Uruguay bends its head and limbs over…

Joseph Grimaldi: …Theatre, where, in the pantomime Harlequin Mother Goose, he enjoyed his greatest success. In this production he created a new type of clown combining rogue and simpleton, criminal and innocent dupe in one character, a role subsequently adopted by many other English clowns. His whiteface makeup and impudent thievery became…

coral snake: The eastern coral snake, or harlequin snake (Micrurus fulvius), which lives in the southeastern U.S., is about 1 metre (3.3 feet) long and has wide red and black rings separated by narrow rings of yellow. The Arizona coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus) is a small (40–50-cm) inhabitant…

coral snake: …include African harlequin snakes (Homoroselaps), which are known for their pronounced orange, black, and yellow coloration. Although some classifications of New World coral snakes also include the genus Leptomicrurus (two species), most place members of this group into the genus Micrurus.

harlequinade, play or scene, usually in pantomime, in which Harlequin, a male character, has the principal role. Derived from the Italian commedia dell’arte, harlequinades came into vogue in early 18th-century England, with a standard plot consisting of a pursuit of the lovers Harlequin and

English literature: The lyric: …best is British Library manuscript Harley 2253 from the early 14th century. In this collection, known as the Harley Lyrics, the love poems, such as “Alysoun” and “Blow, Northern Wind,” take after the poems of the Provençal troubadours but are less formal, less abstract, and more lively. The religious lyrics…

Harley Jefferson Earl: Daytona 500 is the Harley J. Earl Perpetual Trophy, so named to honour Earl’s contributions to automotive design.

English literature: The lyric: …this collection, known as the Harley Lyrics, the love poems, such as “Alysoun” and “Blow, Northern Wind,” take after the poems of the Provençal troubadours but are less formal, less abstract, and more lively. The religious lyrics also are of high quality; but the most remarkable of the Harley Lyrics,…

Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford was a British statesman who headed the Tory ministry from 1710 to 1714. Although by birth and education he was a Whig and a Dissenter, he gradually over the years changed his politics, becoming the leader of the Tory and Anglican party. Harley came from a

Hells Angels: …are white males who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Each is known by a “legal,” or official, name, which may be a colourful nickname. Membership status is tightly controlled. Prospective members face a long vetting and initiation process, and anyone who resigns is required to turn in all regalia bearing the Hells…

Friesland: …the only large town, and Harlingen, the only port, serves as its outlet. Other centres are Sneek, Heerenveen, Drachten, Bolsward, Franeker, and Dokkum. There is a nature reserve for seals that is located on the Frisian island of Terschelling. Area 2,217 square miles (5,741 square km). Pop. (2009 est.) 644,811.

Harlingen, city, Cameron county, southern Texas, U.S., located 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Brownsville, with which it forms an industrial-agribusiness-port complex. Founded in the early 1900s and named after Harlingen, Netherlands, by its pioneer settler, Lon C. Hill, Sr., it became a station on

A Harlot High and Low, novel in four parts by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1839–47 as Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. It was also translated into English as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans and A (or The) Harlot’s Progress. It belongs to the “Scenes of Parisian Life” portion of

American literature: New fictional modes: …his most effective work was Harlot’s Ghost (1991), about the Central Intelligence Agency. His final novels took Jesus Christ (The Gospel According to the Son [1997]) and Adolf Hitler (The Castle in the Forest [2007]) as their subjects.

comedy: The comic outside the theatre: …A Rake’s Progress (1735) and A Harlot’s Progress (1732), also make a didactic point about the wages of sin, using realistic details heightened with grotesquerie to expose human frailty and its sinister consequences. The grotesque is a recurrent feature of the satiric tradition in England, where comedy serves social criticism.…

A Harlot High and Low, novel in four parts by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1839–47 as Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. It was also translated into English as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans and A (or The) Harlot’s Progress. It belongs to the “Scenes of Parisian Life” portion of