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Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac
Category: Fiction
French offices a gutter-jumper-a messenger in fact-who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pane of the window against which he was leaning. The pellet, well aimed, rebounded ...Show more
Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Created by)
Category: Classics
Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot-and it is this weakness that will give the cunning Cousin Bette an oppor ...Show more
Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Category: Classics
The early 19th century is the setting for Honore de Balzac's book "Eugenie Grandet," which takes place in the French town of Saumur. The Grandet family, who are both affluent and exceedingly thrifty, is the focus of the narrative. Felix Grandet, the family patriarch, was formerly a cooper who amassed we ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré De Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Human Comedy Ser.
In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugenie's desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with h ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
History of the Thirteen by Honoré De Balzac
Category: Fiction
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, how ...Show more
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered ...Show more
Lost Souls by Honoré de Balzac; Raymond N. MacKenzie (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The first new translation of Balzac's 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac's brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, t ...Show more
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Honor de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, ...Show more
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; M. Crawford (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Honor de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, ...Show more