Balzac: 1669 books

Vigorosa espressione della poetica balzachiana, Splendori e miserie delle cortigiane è un'opera in divenire, modellata nel corso di tredici anni (1835-47). I quattro romanzi che la compongono sono dominati dalle figure di Esther, giovane e affascinante prostituta parigina, Lucien, di lei romanticamente...

È meglio subire una società ispirata ai valori dell'egoismo oppure esistere in solitudine, in rapporto diretto con l'energia cosmica e la morte? È meglio sopravvivere senza passioni, senza pensieri, senza piaceri, o vivere intensamente, esaurendo il proprio capitale energetico? La tragica storia di...

In this novella from Honore de Balzac, an impoverished mother and daughter slave away as embroiderers but are barely able to evade starvation. Finally, what seems to be a blessing enters into their lives -- an older gentleman falls in love with the daughter, Caroline, and whisks her away to a fine country estate. Will Caroline get the happily-ever-after she so richly deserves?

The Harvard Classics - Shelf of Fiction represents a specific selection of the greatest novels, novellas and short stories of seven national literatures, namely: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian. Table of Contents: Vols. 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones by Henry...

Droll Stories, by Honore de Balzac.

Dans une auberge au bord du Rhin sont réunis par le hasard deux jeunes Français et un riche négociant allemand qui passent une agréable soirée avant d'aller se coucher. Au petit matin, on retrouve le négociant décapité... Dans les brumes de l'Allemagne romantique, l'inspecteur Balzac mène l'enquête !

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Le Message de Honoré de Balzac augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. - Accédez instantanément...

Un honnête parfumeur, à la tête d'une entreprise familiale, entreprend sur le conseil d'un notaire véreux de développer son commerce: désireux de couler l'huile de Macassar, qui lui fait concurrence, il invente l'Eau carminative et la Double Pâte des Sultanes, découvre la publicité et accède...

This collection of Balzac’s stories contains The Marriage Contract, a tragicomedy about money and marriage; Gobseck, in which Anastasie de Restaud enters into an unfortunate marriage—an aristocratic yet boring partnership without love or passion; and La Grenadiere.

Some of the short stories in the Philosophical Studies section of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy have hints of the mystical and supernatural. These elements are very pronounced in the spine-chilling tale "The Elixir of Life," which veers into the territory of gothic horror. In the story, a dying man confides to his son that he has found a way to cheat death and achieve immortality.

"The Atheist's Mass" is a short story from the "Scenes From Private Life" section of Honore de Balzac's story cycle The Human Comedy. One day, the narrator happens to see one of his acquaintances, a prominent doctor, attending mass. Since he knows that Dr. Desplein is an avowed atheist, the narrator's...

Five of Balzac’s finest short stories are collected in this volume. “The Unknown Masterpiece” introduces three artists and their obsessive quest to create beautiful paintings which will enthrall the viewer—and the madness that ensues. “The Maranas” follows two French soldiers stationed in...

This novel is one of the pillars of the Scenes of Provincial Life section of Honore de Balzac's story cycle The Human Comedy. Through a series of tragedies and coincidences, a kind and pious teenager named Ursula has been taken in by an octogenarian doctor, Denis Minoret. Inspired by Ursula's goodness,...

Le Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. This is the story of the relationship between a doting father and his two adult daughters. Blinded by his love for his children, Père Goriot can not see their flaws and gives them everything they ask for even though the giving destroys him. A cautionary tale about the dangers of placing society and money before all else.