Honore Balzac: 591 books

This novel is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's sweeping saga The Human Comedy. Renowned artist Theodore de Sommervieux falls head-over-heels in love with the beautiful, refined Augustine Guillaume, and soon the besotted pair are married. But after a blissful honeymoon period, the couple discovers that sometimes love is not enough to make a marriage work.

EXTRAIT: Ma chère biche, je suis dehors aussi, moi  ! Et si tu ne m’as pas écrit à Blois, je suis aussi la première à notre joli rendez-vous de la correspondance. Relève tes beaux yeux noirs attachés sur ma première phrase, et...

La comédie humaine d’Honoré de BALZAC est l'une des plus imposantes œuvres romanesques de la littérature française, avec plus de quatre-vingt-dix romans et nouvelles parus de 1829 à 1855. Par cette œuvre, Balzac veut faire une « histoire naturelle de la société », explorant...

Les Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite true that bachelors and old maids are the heroes and...

Les Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite true that bachelors and old maids are the heroes and...

These choice selections from Honoré de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three...

Dünya edebiyatının en büyük romancılarından Balzac, romanlarında yarattığı karakterle yaşıyordu. Onlarla konuşuyor, zaferleriyle çıldırıyor, ölümleriyle kahroluyordu. Onlar, Balzac için gerçekti. Balzac'ı edebiyat tarihinin klasikleri arasına yerleştiren de bu gerçekçiliği...

Balzac Almanlara, Jean Paul ve Beethoven'a özel bir sevgi besliyordu; karşılığını Richard Wagner ve Schönberg'den gördü bu sevginin. Görsel eğilimine rağmen, bir bütün olarak eserinde müziksel bir yan vardır. On dokuzuncu yüzyılın ve yirminci yüzyıl başının müziği, büyük...

Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, published in three installments in the 1830s, offers a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. These thirty stories in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais were claimed by the author to have originated in manuscripts from the...

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,  unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots,  and more—move...

La comédie humaine d’Honoré de BALZAC est l'une des plus imposantes œuvres romanesques de la littérature française, avec plus de quatre-vingt-dix romans et nouvelles parus de 1829 à 1855. Par cette œuvre, Balzac veut faire une « histoire naturelle de la société », explorant...

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered...

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and...

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and...