Honor De Balzac: 1029 books

GERTRUDE. Je t’assure, mon ami, qu’il serait imprudent d’attendre plus longtemps pour marier ta fille, elle a vingt-deux ans. Pauline a trop tardé à faire un choix ; et, en pareil cas, c’est aux parents à établir leurs enfants… d’ailleurs j’y suis intéressée....

La Comédie humaine - Études philosophiques. Seizième volume de l'édition Furne 1842.

This is dedicated to Auguste Borget by his friend De Balza

The clock of the little town of Menda had just struck midnight. At that moment a young French officer, leaning on the parapet of a long terrace which bordered the gardens of the chateau de Menda, seemed buried in thoughts that were deeper than comported with the light-hearted carelessness of military...

In 1828, at about one o'clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each...

Romanzo che narra le vicende di Papà Goriot, un usuraio fabricante di vermicelli il cui amore per le figlie non è ricambiato, che si intrecciano con il giovane studente universitario, Eugene De Rastignac, più attratto dall'alta società parigina che per lo studio. Libro in lingua originale francese con traduzione in italiano.

Maurice de l’Hostal, entrato molto giovane al servizio di un alto funzionario di Stato come segretario particolare, il conte Octave, viene da questi coinvolto nel tentativo di riconquista della moglie Honorine che, resasi colpevole di adulterio, se n’è andata di casa e vive da anni in solitudine,...

Un giovane, Raphael de Valentin, avendo perduto al gioco le sue ultime risorse, desidera morire. Scopre, presso un vecchio antiquario, un talismano, una pelle di zigrino, che dovrebbe permettergli di soddisfare le tumultuose passioni della sua età. Di rara bellezza la descrizione del negozio dell'antiquario...

Mit dem Werkbeitrag aus Kindlers Literatur Lexikon.Mit dem Autorenporträt aus dem Metzler Lexikon Weltliteratur.Mit Daten zu Leben und Werk, exklusiv verfasst von der Redaktion der Zeitschrift für Literatur TEXT + KRITIK.Julie wünscht sich einen attraktiven Gatten in Uniform. Der Oberst d'Aiglemont...

La Comédie humaine - Études analytiques. Seizième volume de l'édition Furne 1842.

To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane.

The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very elegantly dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane with sanctity. Always in conformity...

Der Roman besteht aus den drei Teilen Le talisman (Der Talisman), La femme sans cœur (Die herzlose Frau) und L'agonie (Der Todeskampf). Hauptfigur ist der junge Raphaël de Valentin, von adliger Geburt, jedoch verwaist und verarmt, der sich immer erträumt hat, ein Schriftsteller zu...

New Year's Day of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sugared almonds, four o'clock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-houses were beginning to fill. At this moment a coupe drew up at the perron and a young man stepped out; a man of haughty appearance, and no doubt a foreigner;...