Honore De Balzac: 586 books

A fantastic novel by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac.

Settle in for a titillating tale of illicit passion, romantic entanglement, and murder. Honore de Balzac's novella The Girl With the Golden Eyes highlights the French writer's skillful ability to convey truths about the darker nature of humanity through perfectly wrought details and observations. A must-read...

The novel Eve and David is the third entry in Honore de Balzac's Lost Illusions trilogy, which in turn is part of his larger novel cycle, The Human Comedy. The story focuses on a pair of earnest, good-hearted lovers who struggle to remain unsullied even as the world around them devolves into a hellish demimonde beset by greed, sensationalism, and baseness.

The short story "Facino Cane" has been categorized as both a "Philosophical Study" and a "Scene of Paris Life" in various editions of French writer Honore de Balzac's sprawling series The Human Comedy. The narrator is attending a wedding and takes an interest in one of the musicians performing at the...

Predating Edgar Allen Poe's remarkably similar story "The Cask of Amontillado" by more than a decade, Honore de Balzac's chilling tale "La Grande Breteche" centers on a mysterious manor that sits abandoned in a town in central France. When a physician becomes curious about the estate and begins to question locals about it, he gradually unfurls a horrifying secret.

An extract from Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy, the novel Albert Savarus details the dramatic twists and turns in a budding love affair between Albert, a young lawyer with literary ambitions, and a beautiful but conniving young woman named Rosalie. Though the story unfolds in a manner not unlike a typical romance, the surprise ending will leave readers reeling.

Droll Stories, by Honore de Balzac.

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...

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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 Bonaparte. The Girl With the Golden Eyes is...

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...

L'« histoire », ici, se confond avec les histoires du texte. Autre étude de femme est en effet un « puzzle » constitué de fragments d'origines diverses. Plusieurs sont empruntés à « Une conversation entre onze heures et minuit », texte que Balzac a publié en 1832 dans Les Contes Bruns,...

Eugénie Grandet, büyük Fransız yazarı Balzac'ın İnsanlık Güldürüsü genel başlığı altında tasarlayıp gerçekleştirdiği çok sayıda romandan olşan o dev yapıtın en çok okunan parçalarından biri. 1833'te yayınlanan bu romanında Balzac, taşra insanlarını ve onların özellikle...