The Very Best Of Honore De Balzac


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The fifty stories that balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the characters that throng thecomedie humaine. Nevertheless, while they do offer an interesting counterpoint to the great novels, the stories as themselve.




The Best of Balzac


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La Comédie Humaine


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Balzac


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A portrait of the self-destructive French novelist follows Balzac's early literary disappointments, impractical money-making schemes, love affairs, correspondences, and achievements.




Eugénie Grandet


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Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.




Cousin Betty


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The book "" Cousin Betty "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.







The Greatest Works of Honoré de Balzac


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This meticulously edited Honoré de Balzac collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels The Chouans At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Vendetta The Magic Skin The Exiles Louis Lambert Eugenie Grandet The Country Doctor Ferragus The Duchesse de Langeais The Alkahest Seraphita Father Goriot The Lily of the Valley The Marriage Contract The Old Maid Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau The Collection of Antiquities A Daughter of Eve Beatrix The Village Rector Ursule Mirouet Letters of Two Brides Paz A Woman of Thirty Albert Savarus The Two Brothers A Start in Life Two Poets Honorine Modeste Mignon Cousin Betty Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Cousin Pons Brotherhood of Consolation Sons of the Soil Catherine de' Medici A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Lesser Bourgeoisie Novellas The Ball at Sceaux Sarrasine A Second Home Domestic Peace Gobseck El Verdugo Colonel Chabert The Vicar of Tours Girl with the Golden Eyes Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan Z. Marcas Pierrette The Muse of the Department Two Poets Eve and David Bureaucracy Short Stories Study of a Woman Another Study of Woman The Grand Breteche Farewell The Unknown Masterpiece The Recruit The Red Inn The Purse La Grenadiere The Message A Drama on the Seashore The Atheist's Mass Facino Cane Gambara Massimilla Doni Pierre Grassou An Episode Under the Terror Madame Firmiani The Deserted Woman The Commission in Lunacy The Illustrious Gaudissart A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business Gaudissart II The Unconscious Comedians The Firm of Nucingen A Passion in the Desert Christ in Flanders The Napoleon of the People Droll Stories




Cousin Bette


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The Debut


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Since childhood Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, and from the hothouse attentions of her tyrannical and eccentric parents into the gentler warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr. Weiss, at forty, a quiet scholar devoted to the study of Balzac, is convinced that her life has been ruined by literature, and that once again she must make a new start in life.