Honore Balzac: 591 books

Book cover of Vendetta
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

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...
Book cover of The Commission in Lunacy
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

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.
Book cover of Folk-Tales of Napoleon

Folk-Tales of Napoleon

The Napoleon of the People and Napoleonder

by Honore de Balzac, Alexander Amphiteatrof
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

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.
Book cover of The Exiles
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Though Honore de Balzac is now lauded as a master of the literary genre of social realism, a sizable number of his stories and novels also contain supernatural and mystical elements. The story "The Exiles" is set in the medieval period, and revolves around a couple who run a small boarding house -- and gradually begin to suspect that some of their boarders may be harboring dark secrets.
Book cover of La Vendetta
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT:  En 1800, vers la fin du mois d’octobre, un étranger, suivi d’une femme et d’une petite fille, arriva devant les Tuileries à Paris, et se tint assez long-temps auprès des décombres d’une maison récemment démolie, à l’endroit...
Book cover of Albert Savarus
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT:  Un des quelques salons où se produisait l’archevêque de Besançon sous la Restauration, et celui qu’il affectionnait était celui de madame la baronne de Watteville. Un mot sur cette dame, le personnage féminin le plus considérable...
Book cover of Code des gens honnetes ou l'art de ne pas etre dupe des fripons
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT: LE Code, en désignant les peines encourues par les voleurs, a fait une nomenclature des diverses espèces de vols auxquels est exposé un homme honnête  ; mais le législateur pouvait-il prévoir et décrire les ruses, les subtilités...
Book cover of La Fausse Maitresse
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT: Au mois de septembre 1835, une des plus riches héritières du faubourg Saint-Germain, mademoiselle du Rouvre, fille unique du marquis du Rouvre, épousa le comte Adam Mitgislas Laginski, jeune Polonais proscrit.            ...
Book cover of La Paix du menage
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT: L’aventure retracée par cette Scène se passa vers la fin du mois de novembre 1809, moment où le fugitif empire de Napoléon atteignit à l’apogée de sa splendeur. Les fanfares de la victoire de Wagram retentissaient encore au cœur de la...
Book cover of Madame Firmiani
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT: Beaucoup de récits, riches de situations ou rendus dramatiques par les innombrables jets du hasard, emportent avec eux leurs propres artifices et peuvent être racontés artistement ou simplement par toutes les lèvres, sans que le sujet y perde la plus légère...
Book cover of Letters to Madame Hanska
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

A collection of letters from Honore de Balzac to his future wife, Madame Hanska.
Book cover of Juana
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

Juana by Honore de Balzac.
Book cover of The Brotherhood of Consolation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

French playwright and novelist Honore de Balzac is at his best when he is describing the chaotic tumult of big city life in nineteenth-century Europe. In The Brotherhood of Consolation, he focuses on a secret society of people bent on bringing some small measure of goodness into the lives of others by carrying out anonymous acts of charity, philanthropy and assistance.
Book cover of Les Celibataires (premiere histoire) Pierrette
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2014

EXTRAIT: En octobre 1827, à l’aube, un jeune homme âgé d’environ seize ans et dont la mise annonçait ce que la phraséologie moderne appelle si insolemment un prolétaire, s’arrêta sur une petite place qui se trouve dans le bas Provins. À...
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