Balzac: 1669 books

Classic novels. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...

Five-act play. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...

Appearing in 1829, Les Chouans was the first of Balzac’s books to be published under his own name. It is a tale of love gone wrong amid the anti-government Chouan uprising in Brittany in 1799.  This is the book that established Balzac’s literary reputation, and was, as one critic wrote, the author’s “passage into the Promised Land.”

The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. In much of Balzac's work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in this novel, it is members of the working class who...

Honoré de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. “Christ in Flanders”, written in 1831, is part of the Philosophical studies (études philosophiques) section of La Comédie Humaine. (Goodreads)

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper La Presse in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (Scènes de la vie privée, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2) of Balzac's...

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is a French writer, a founder of realism genre in European literature. He is famous for his collection of novels "The human comedy". During his life Balzac was very popular in Europe and considered to be one of the best writers of the 19th century. "Eugenie...

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life), which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine.

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...

French writer Honore de Balzac had many unique strengths, and chief among them is his ability to limn and illuminate subtle differences between social classes. In this pastoral novel, Balzac explores the virtues and follies of country life through the eyes of Emile Blondet, a journalist who was born...

"The marriage contract" is a 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Located in Bordeaux, describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, with the beautiful hereditary Spanish, spoiled, Natalie Evangelista.

Diese Ausgabe der Erzählungen und Novellen von Honoré de Balzac wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Dieses eBook ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Honoré de Balzac (1799/1850) war ein französischer...

Humorvoll und pointiert beschreibt Balzac sein Milieu, die kleinbürgerlichen Viertel in Paris. Einer der ganz großen Balzac-Klassiker und immer wieder lesenswert.

Honoré de Balzac - Die Frau von dreißig JahrenEiner der berühmtesten Romane von Honoré de Balzac ist 'Die Frau von dreißig Jahren' - ein wahrer Klassiker der Weltliteratur.Julie d’Aiglemont, eine attraktive Frau von dreizig Jahren, heiratet einen Offizier und findet sich schnell im eintönig,...