Balzac: 1669 books

Roman d’Honoré de Balzac publié en 1843, La Rabouilleuse (La Comédie humaine - Scènes de la vie de province) fait partie de la littérature classique à lire et à relire.

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La première partie du XIXe siècle voit l'émergence d'une catégorie sociale non identifiée : la petite bourgeoisie. Dans le diptyque très kafkaïen que présente ce seizième volume de La Comédie humaine, Balzac lui donne ses lettres de noblesse. Il surexpose, avec délectation, ses raisons...

Comment, depuis trente ans que le père Rigou vous suce la moelle de vos os, vous n'avez pas core vu que les bourgeois seront pires que les seigneurs ?... Les bourgeois et le gouvernement, c'est tout un ! Quéqu'ils deviendraient si nous étions tous riches ?... Laboureraient-ils leurs champs, feraient-ils...

En 1816, à Alençon, Rose Cormon, quarante ans, attend toujours le mari digne de son rang. Issue de la bonne bourgeoisie, elle est parmi les plus riches personnes de la ville. La description minutieuse de sa maison et de la vie qu’elle y mène sont typiques de la manière balzacienne. Autour...

This exquisite novella from master of French realism Honore de Balzac illustrates how greed and covetousness can infect and fester in even the most seemingly pure people and environments. An ascetic clergyman becomes the target of a nefarious plot. Will he be able to escape with his few cherished belongings -- and his faith in humanity intact?

This short vignette from Honore de Balzac, a key figure in French realism, is a story within a story. The narrator, Nathan, regales a pair of aristocratic ladies with stories about the Rusticoli family and its most prominent member, La Palferine. At first, his audience is unappreciative, but over time, they become wrapped up in the multi-generational saga.

Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she...

In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugénie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien...

Pierre Grassou is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

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...

This diptych is part of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece, The Human Comedy. It comprises two stories, "Cousin Betty" and "Cousin Pons," each of which delve deeply into complicated family dynamics and the long-lasting impact of seemingly trivial conflicts.