Balzac: 1669 books
by Ellen Marriage, Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
In the early spring of 1822, the Paris doctors sent to Lower Normandy a young man just recovering from an inflammatory complaint, brought on by overstudy, or perhaps by excess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded complete rest, a light diet, bracing air, and freedom from excitement of every...
by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those who narrate them, without their subjects losing any, even the least of their charms. But there are some...
by Ellen Marriage, Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace— a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who...
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair−minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though...
by Honore De Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Honore De Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
What an ideal being was this Albert--gloomy, unhappy, eloquent, laborious, as compared by Mademoiselle de Watteville to that chubby fat Count, bursting with health, paying compliments, and talking of the fashions in the very face of the splendor of the old counts of Rupt.
La fausse maîtresse
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Tombé sous le charme de Clémentine Laginska, la femme de son meilleur ami, le comte Thaddée Paz n'a pas d'autre solution que de s'inventer une maîtresse pour ne pas succomber à la tentation...
Un ménage de garçon
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018
La Comédie humaine - Études de moeurs. Deuxième livre, Scènes de la vie de province - Tome II. Sixième volume de l'édition Furne 1842. Le docteur Rouget, malin et tyrannique, a su profiter de la Révolution française pour s'enrichir. Il a, de plus, épousé l'aînée de la famille Descoings,...