Honore De Balzac: 586 books

"La paz del hogar" es un relato breve que se centra en las relaciones de unos cuantos personajes durante la celebración de una fiesta.

Honorina es una mujer de la alta sociedad que abandonó la seguridad de su matrimonio aburrido  por el amor que le profesaba un hombre no muy respetable. Abandonó todo, incluido el respeto, dinero, la posición, la alegría, la belleza… y aquel hombre la dejó tal como ella hizo con su marido.

Un jeune peintre prometteur fait une chute dans son atelier et se réveille dans les bras d'une ravissante inconnue, sa voisine. Mais cette idylle naissante est rapidement contrariée par les soupçons qui pèsent sur cette jeune fille et sa mère. Pourquoi un riche vieillard vient-il chaque...

In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau...

This is a book of the highest flavour, full of right hearty merriment, spiced to the palate of the illustrious and very precious tosspots and drinkers, to whom our worthy compatriot, Francois Rabelais, the eternal honour of Touraine, addressed himself. Be it nevertheless understood, the author has no...

Entering Nemours by the road to Paris, we cross the canal du Loing, the steep banks of which serve the double purpose of ramparts to the fields and of picturesque promenades for the inhabitants of that pretty little town. Since 1830 several houses had unfortunately been built on the farther side of the...

What an ideal being was this Albert--gloomy, unhappy, eloquent, laborious, as compared by Mademoiselle de Watteville to that chubby fat Count, bursting with health, paying compliments, and talking of the fashions in the very face of the splendor of the old counts of Rupt.

A heartbroken cavalry officer, Auguste de Maulincour, is strolling through a rather seedy section of Paris when he happens to spot the object of his unrequited love, a married young woman named Clemence. Even more remarkable is the fact that he sees her furtively entering a house of ill repute. Aghast...

Türkçeye ilk kez çevrilen Lanetli Çocuk, her ne kadar aile sırları, aşk, derebeylik üstüne bir roman gibi gözükse de, ilk basıldığında Felsefesel İncelemeler'in içinde yeralıyordu. Tek yönlü bir okuma ile sınırlandırılamayacak tuzaklı bir metin, gizemci bir dille yazılmış...

On a cold morning in December, towards the close of the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing betrayed his poverty, was standing before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands−Augustine, in Paris. After walking to and fro for some time with the hesitation of a lover who fears to approach his mistress,...

Ehrgeizig ist der Dichter Lucien de Rubempre, der aus der westfranzösischen Provinzstadt Angoulême nach Paris kommt, um sein Glück zu machen. Der sich mit dem Adelstitel seiner Mutter Schmückende will in die vornehmen Kreise. Doch er bleibt erfolglos, wird aber von dem Journalisten Lousteau in...

Entering Nemours by the road to Paris, we cross the canal du Loing, the steep banks of which serve the double purpose of ramparts to the fields and of picturesque promenades for the inhabitants of that pretty little town. Since 1830 several houses had unfortunately been built on the farther side of the...

In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau...

Les premières pages de ce très court roman nous proposent un foisonnement d'hypothèses sur son héroïne : qui est donc cette Madame Firmiani ? Une « rusée commère » ? Ou « un ange » ?