Honor De Balzac: 1029 books

Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicted him in anything.

You know how slight the partitions are between the private rooms of fashionable restaurants in Paris; Very's largest room, for instance, is cut in two by a removable screen. This Scene is not laid at Very's, but in snug quarters, which for reasons of my own I forbear to specify. We were two, so I will say, like Henri Monnier's Prudhomme, “I should not like to compromise her!

On the 22nd of January, 1793, towards eight o'clock in the evening, an old lady came down the steep street that comes to an end opposite the Church of Saint Laurent in the Faubourg Saint Martin. It had snowed so heavily all day long that the lady's footsteps were scarcely audible; the streets were deserted,...

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Malgrado il titolo, il protagonista e la fortuna del padre di Eugénie, il quale si contende con il piu famoso avaro di Moliere il titolo di piu avaro. Riesce a cavare soldi da qualsiasi situazione e non e capace di fare alcuna spesa senza prima averle provate tutte per non farla.