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Eugénie Grandet (1833) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as Balzac began to formulate the grand scale of his La Comédie humaine sequence, Eugénie Grandet was eventually tied into the universe of his epic realist masterpiece, a holistic vision of nineteenth-century French society which sought to observe the consequences of the political, religious, and economic shifts of the Revolution and in its aftermath. This novel looks...
2) Cousin Bette
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Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author's last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeare's Othello and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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"Another Study of Woman" is a narrative hovering between a short story and a novella in terms of length, extracted from Honore de Balzac's multi-volume masterpiece The Human Comedy. At a private dinner party, guests warmed by the flush of fine food and drink begin to banter about the qualities and attributes that characterize the ideal woman. Gradually, the guests begin to reminisce about their own experiences and encounters with perfect and not-so-perfect...
4) Bureaucracy
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Excerpt: "In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries. At this period he was forty years old, with gray hair of so pleasing a shade that women might at a pinch fall in love with it for it softened...
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After Vautrin helps Lucien overcome a mental breakdown, the two men decide to align forces in pursuit of social status and wealth. Operating under an alias, Vautrin offers to help Lucien redeem himself and move back to Paris, with the condition that Lucien follows his orders exactly. Happy to comply, the pair return to the capital city, living in excess and racking up a debt as they pretend they can afford this luxurious lifestyle. With a goal of...
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Der Ball von Sceaux (1830)
Sarrasine (1830)
Vendetta (1830)
El Verdugo (1831)
Die Börse (1832)
Die Grenadiere (1832)
Oberst Chabert (1832)
Ein Drama am Ufer des Meeres (1835)
Seraphita (1835)
Facino Cane (1836)
Die Messe der Gottlosen (1836)
Die Entmündigung (1836)
Katharina von Medici (1836)
Das Haus Nucingen (1838)
Die Geheimnisse der Fürstin von Cadignan (1839)
Eine Evatochter (1839)
Die falsche Geliebte (1841)
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From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccio's Decameron. Balzac's Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europe, these stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval...
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Extrait: "Une brèche a toujours sa cause et son utilité. Voici comment et pourquoi celle qui se trouve entre la tour aujourd'hui dite de Mademoiselle, et les écuries, avait été pratiquée. Dès son installation à Cinq-Cygne, le bonhomme d'Hauteserre fit d'une longue ravine par laquelle les eaux de la forêt tombaient dans la douve, un chemin qui sépare deux grandes pièces de terre appartenant à la réserve du château, mais uniquement pour...
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Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac. While he was writing it he conceived his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine, and almost immediately prepared a second edition, revising the names of some of the characters so that Eugénie Grandet then fitted into the section: Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province) in the Comédie. He dedicated the edition to Maria Du Fresnay, who was then...
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Gobseck, an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), appears in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Gobseck first appeared in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under the title l'Usurier (The Usurer), and then in August 1830 in the periodical Le Voleur. The actual novella appeared in a volume published by Mame-Delaunay under the title Les Dangers de l'inconduite. This novella would...
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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. At the end of that book, Lucien de Rubempré (born Lucien Chardon), a young provincial poet with great ambitions but feeble moral will, was heading for Paris in the company...
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This is one of Balzac's best stories ever. It's the story of a foolish, spoilt boy who brags about his place in life in front of his intended patron, who's travelling incognito on the same coach. Other occupants of the coach, all dependent on his patronage in one way or another, do the same. The way in which Balzac creates the setting, introduces the characters and leaks in the story of the Comte and how he plans to catch his dishonest steward out...
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Though a relatively short story, A Man of Business is an important component of Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy, involving many of the recurring characters from the series and tying up a number of loose ends. As a fete thrown at the home of his mistress begins to wind down, Cardot invites the lingering merrymakers to settle around the table and begins telling a story about a clever debt-collection scheme. Honore de Balzac (20...
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Extrait : "Un des quelques salons o se produisait l'archevêque de Besançon sous la Restauration, et celui qu'il affectionnait, était celui de madame la baronne de Watteville. Un mot sur cette dame, le personnage féminin le plus considérable peut-être de Besançon. Monsieur de Watteville, petit-neveu du fameux Watteville, le plus heureux et le plus illustre des meurtriers et des renégats don’t les aventures extraordinaires sont beaucoup trop...
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Extrait: "Vers le milieu du mois de juillet de l'année 1838, une de ces voitures nouvellement mises en circulation sur les places de Paris et nommées des milords, cheminait, rue de l'Université, portant un gros homme de taille moyenne, en uniforme de capitaine de la garde nationale."
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Extrait : "Dans un des plus beaux htels de la rue Neuve-des-Mathurins, à onze heures et demie du soir, deux femmes étaient assises devant la cheminée d'un boudoir tendu de ce velours bleu à reflets tendres et chatoyants que l'industrie française n'a su fabriquer que dans ces dernières années. Aux portes, aux croisées, un artiste avait drapé de moelleux rideaux en cachemire d'un bleu pareil à celui de la tenture."
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Extrait : "Vers trois heures de l'après-midi, dans le mois d'octobre de l'année 1844, un homme âgé d'une soixantaine d'années, mais à qui tout le monde eût donné plus que cet âge, allait le long du boulevard des Italiens, le nez à la piste, les lèvres papelardes, comme un négociant qui vient de conclure une excellente affaire, ou comme un garçon content de lui-même au sortir d'un boudoir."
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Extrait : "Toi qui procures de délicieux rêves au public avec tes fantaisies, mon cher Nathan, je vais te faire rêver avec du vrai. Tu me diras si jamais le siècle actuel pourra léguer de pareils songes aux Nathan et aux Blondet de l'an 1923 ! Tu mesureras la distance à laquelle nous sommes du temps o les Florine du dix-huitième siècle trouvaient à leur réveil, un château comme les Aigues, dans un contrat."
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Known for his keen observations and finely drawn characters, Honoré de Balzac is regarded as one of the forerunners of the literary realism movement that swept Europe in the nineteenth century. A Woman at Thirty offers an unflinching look at the layers of social oppression that dictated the course of many women's lives during the era. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is...
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