Balzac: 1669 books

“HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!” This exclamation was made by a lawyer’s clerk of the class called in 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,...

Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well as the larger cultural shift from an era of genteel aristocracy and class stratification to a more democratic way of living.

La Grande Bretèche is a short story by Honoré de Balzac published in 1831. Dr. Horace Bianchon discovers near the town of Vendôme an abandoned manor: La Grande Bretèche. Intrigued by the ruins, the doctor tries unsuccessfully to enter the house night after night. Upon returning to the inn where...

This is one of Balzac's fantastic reality tales, not only resounding in the supernatural and the occult, in diabolical elixirs, eternal life or in a piece of the conscious body that returns to the life of a corpse. There is a sharp criticism against some ways of the living of the bourgeoisie and especially on the institution of the Catholic Church. (Goodreads)

Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as Albert Savarus. Written in 1836 and part of a series of novels known as La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (18151848).

Appartenente al ciclo dei poveri, del quale 'Il cugino Pons' è l'altra metà, questo appassionante romanzo di Balzac fu scritto nel 1846. Vi si narrano le problematiche della famiglia Hulot in un arco di tempo di otto anni, durante il quale graviteranno intorno ad essa un gran numero di personaggi....

Eugenia Grandet è il romanzo più celebre dello scrittore francese Honoré de Balzac. Il romanzo vede la protagonista, una ereditiera benestante, affrontare la vita rompendo i rigidi schemi dell'epoca. Attraverso varie vicissitudini e disillusioni, Eugenia imparerà infatti a vivere la vita alle...

Eugenia è una ragazza ingenua e sentimentale che vive a Saumur, una grigia cittadina della provincia francese. È figlia di un commerciante di vini spilorcio e meschino, che si è arricchito con i suoi traffici. In casa, per breve tempo, giunge ospite Carlo, il figlio dello zio paterno. Carlo è...

Il più famoso dei romanzi di Balzac, il suo successo più incontestato dal 1833 a oggi, si presenta ancora come un testo sfuggente e scomodo. Che cosa racconta davvero? Una passione tragicamente malriposta, l’avidità materialistica quale principio di morte, l’aridità della vita provinciale?...

Set in the aftermath of the French Revolution, this short story from the Scenes of Political Life section of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy immerses readers in the terrifying tumult of the period. Brimming with mystery and suspense, this is historical fiction at its very best.

The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

La Grande Breteche by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Clara Bell and Ellen Marriage libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Adieu by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

" Les anges sont blancs ". Le caractère bien énigmatique de cet énoncé résume fidèlement ce dernier volet des Etudes philosophiques. Au terme de son parcours, le lecteur découvre la mystique balzacienne à travers trois destins, ceux de Dante, le proscrit florentin, de Louis Lambert,...