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Atheist's Mass: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #41 by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diver ...Show more
Cousin Bette by David (INT) Sylvia (TRN); Bellos Honore de; Raphael Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France stru ...Show more
Cousin Pons: Part Two of 'Poor Relations' by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disda ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This Orange Inheritance Edition of "Eugenie Grandet" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classics" asked t ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"Me have that golden gown!" A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Le Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac
Category: Fiction
Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of Eylau, returns to Paris after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried, and his pension gone. He employs a young, well-known lawyer to at least reclaim his pension. It is a game of wits: first to convince the lawyer that he ...Show more
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Human Comedy Ser.
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.
Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction
Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan to make a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women who mysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring him the status ...Show more
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Introduction by Michael Tilby; Translatoin by James Waring
Pierrette (Dodo Press) by Honore De Balzac
Category: Classic Fiction
By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stori ...Show more