Balzac: 1669 books

Throughout his entire literary career, French writer Honore de Balzac was fascinated by the many ways in which social class can impact the trajectory of a life. In the early novel The Lesser Bourgeoisie, an ambitious young lawyer named Theodose de la Peyrade tries every trick in the book to ingratiate himself with the affluent Thuillier family -- and finds his integrity threatened along the way.

Fans of Romeo and Juliet will delight in the novella Vendetta, Honore de Balzac's unique take on the timeless theme of star-crossed lovers. Corsican immigrants Ginevra Piombo and Luigi Porta fall hopelessly in love, unaware of the fact that their respective families have long been ensnared in a multi-generational...

Father Goriot is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, written in 1834, which was first published in the Revue de Paris and published in 1835 in bookshops. It is part of the Scenes of the Private Life of the Human Comedy. Father Goriot laid the foundations for what would become a real building: the Comédie humaine, a unique literary construction, with links between volumes, bridges and references.

A merciless Breton lord does not want the premature child of seven months, therefore failed, that his wife Jeanne will bring into the world. He decides to kill this damned child and calls a doctor, half midwife, half executioner, for this purpose. Anodyne appearance of this historical account, bordering...

After Father Goriot and Lost Illusions, Splendours et misères des courtisanes completes "Vautrin's trilogy". This hero of the lowlands, a forger and murderer, is also a sublime lover and a poet in his own way, who devotes his Titanic strengths and infernal imagination to the fortune of...

In 1829, on a pretty spring morning, a man about fifty years old was riding a mountainous path that led to a large village near the Grande-Chartreuse. This man, Commander Genestas is looking for another one: Mr. Benassis, country doctor and mayor of this village. The meeting is taking place, but why...

This three-chapter novel by Honoré de Balzac was first published under the title Le dernier Chouan ou la Bretagne in 1799, by Urbain Canel, in 1829. It will be published, with some modifications, under its final title in 1834 by Vimont. Executive Summary In September 1799, on...

This novel by Honoré de Balzac was published for the first two parts, "Les deux Enfances" and "les Premières amours" from November to December 1835 in the Paris magazine. Then, due to a dispute with Buloz, the publication was interrupted. The book, in its full version, was published...

Part of Honore de Balzac's sprawling epic The Human Comedy, the novella The Commission in Lunacy focuses on the story of a bachelor who feels his youth rapidly slipping away and tries to renew his sense of vigor and fulfillment through various means. He crosses paths with the beguiling Madame d'Espard and soon finds himself caught up in a nefarious scheme.

In a dark affair, one of the lesser known volumes of the human comedy, Balzac used a story - the mysterious kidnapping, during the First Empire, of a senator informed of the plot conceived by Fouché against Napoleon Bonaparte - to write a book in which he used his novelistic talent to serve a political...

This classic work of social satire, carnal desire, greed, and obsession is both an exquisitely drawn portrayal of private life and an extraordinary document of post-revolutionary France. Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Honoré de Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists....

Part of Balzac's masterpiece, the multi-volume story cycle The Human Comedy, the short story "Study of a Woman" focuses on Madame de Listomere, an uptight model of propriety, who finds herself being flirted with by the rapscallion Eugene de Rastignac, who has taken up the courtship as a lark.

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This collection brings together two short stories, one from the father of French realism, Honore de Balzac, the other from Russian writer Alexander Amphiteatrof. Both of the tales are related to Napoleon in some way, examining the impact of the famed leader's exploits on the national cultures of the French and the Russians.