Guy Deloeuvre: 209 books

Decidedly, for the realistic 19th century authors, from Balzac to Maupassant and Zola, the peasants are depicted in a mostly negative way. But the highlight is Balzac's novel, "Les paysans", which is considered one of the most important in the "Comédie humaine". He worked on it...

After Ferragus and The Duchess of Langeais, La Fille aux yeux d'or closed in 1834 the trilogy of the History of the Thirteen, where Balzac invented a kind of community dedicated to the service of the devil. Nestled in the heart of Paris, the mansion house of the San-Réal is an eastern enclave...

Lost illusions Honoré de Balzac Inspired in Balzac by his experience in printing, Lost Illusions tells the story of the failure of Lucien de Rubempré, a young provincial who loved literary glory.... For many, including Marcel Proust, this book is also Balzac's best.

In a dark affair, one of the lesser known volumes of the human comedy, Balzac used a story - the mysterious kidnapping, during the First Empire, of a senator informed of the plot conceived by Fouché against Napoleon Bonaparte - to write a book in which he used his novelistic talent to serve a political...

At the end of 1612, the young painter Nicolas Poussin presented himself at the door of Porbus, the great painter he worshipped. He takes advantage of the old master Frenhofer to follow him and enter. In the studio, he was fascinated by a painting commissioned by Marie de Médicis, Mary the Egyptian,...

It has been fifteen years since research in pathological psychology began in France, England and a few other countries, based on the study of hysteria and suggestion; we all know how ardently physiologists and philosophers have engaged in this new study, and in a very short space of time a really...

A child dying without any apparent reason, a young doctor powerless in front of the unexplainable and an old man: Mr Vincent.... Here Jules Lermina leads us in the footsteps of an old scientist who uses the vitality of children to rejuvenate.

George, born to Dutch parents, was captured as a child by the Aaps, savages intermediate between man and monkey, who took him to the bottom of the Sumatran forests. As he grew up, he became friends with one of the ape men, To-Ho, and with Van Kock, a former Dutchman who, fleeing humanity, aged among...

Jules Lermina - "I have always loved fantasy stories. The incredible is one of the forms of poetry. The real, when it is distorted by hallucination or dream, immediately becomes enormous and more attractive perhaps than the truth itself. Such as these faces that some concave or convex mirrors...

Young Paul and little Virginia are madly in love with each other, they get married. The narrator, a scientist whose pupil is Paul, goes abroad. He came back 3 years later and learned that Virginie had died and Paul was confined in his castle. He hastened to find the latter: he did not seem upset,...

Mr. de Morlaines, a widower and former soldier, lives in retirement with his old housekeeper. He takes in a young orphaned girl, a distant relative, falls in love with her and marries her. But if this young wife is well accepted by Mr de Morlaines' son, she is much less so by the old governess who...

We are at the beginning of the 20th century. The discovery of a body in the centre of Paris poses a problem for the police: who is it and how did it get there? A British police officer passing through Paris believes he recognizes the victim. But... the latter was seen the night before in London. How is this possible?.....

Greetings to Dharma, Artha and Kama In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and, in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters, outlined the rules of their existence in relation to Dharma which is the acquisition of religious merit, Artha which is the acquisition...