Honoré De Balzac
1) 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.
The novel focuses on the life and exploits...
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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...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) produced a huge collection of novels, novellas and short stories, earning him recognition as a great master of the novel, as well as one of the creators of literary realism. He collected and arranged his works under the name "La Comédie humaine", which he then divided into eight major topics. "Eugénie Grandet" was placed in the section titled, "Scenes from Provincial Life". The story takes place in the French town of...
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A Passion in the Desert (1830) is a short story by French author, Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, A Passion in the Desert is a frequently anthologized work of short fiction that explores humanity's relationship with nature as well as the effects of conquest and colonization. The story was loosely adapted into a 1997 feature film and remains one of Balzac's most acclaimed works. The story's frame narrative begins...
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One of the fathers of Realism was the famed 19th century French writer Honore de Balzac. His works are best known for their shrewd, yet honest, interpretation of real life problems within the social classes of French society. He believed that explaining a character would not inform the reader about the character's personality; however, describing their home, possessions, and other details would tell the reader about the character's true nature. With...
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La Femme abandonnée est une nouvelle d'Honoré de Balzac parue en 1832 dans La Revue de Paris et publiée en volume en 1833 dans le tome II des Scènes de la vie de province des Études de mœurs aux éditions de Madame Béchet. Elle est rééditée en 1839 aux éditions Charpentier, puis en 1842 dans l'édition Furne avec une dédicace à la duchesse d'Abrantès. Elle figure alors dans les Scènes de la vie privée de La Comédie humaine.
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Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. An early work in his La Comédie humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzac's most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear throughout his other books and is considered to be the first novel in which he perfected his hallmark realist style.
The novel, set in Paris, follows Eugène de Rastignac, a young law student...
10) Le Père Goriot
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"Le Père Goriot" de Honoré de Balzac est un roman réaliste poignant qui explore les thèmes de l'ambition, de l'amour filial et de la déchéance sociale. L'histoire suit le destin tragique de deux jeunes hommes, Rastignac et Bianchon, qui se lient d'amitié dans une pension de famille parisienne o ils ctoient le vieux Père Goriot. Ce dernier, ruiné par l'obsession qu'il a pour ses deux filles, symbolise la figure du père sacrifié pour sa descendance....
11) El cura de Tours
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El escritor francés narra una pequeña intriga en provincias protagonizada por el cándido abate Birotteau y su anfitriona, la solterona señora Gamard.
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Extrait : "Au commencement du mois d'avril 1813, il y eut un dimanche dont la matinée promettait un de ces beaux jours o les Parisiens voient pour la première fois de l'année leurs pavés sans boue et leur ciel sans nuages."
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"The Wild Ass's Skin" is Honoré de Balzac's 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaël de Valentin, who discovers a piece of shagreen, in this case a rough untanned piece of a wild ass's skin, which has the magical property of granting wishes. However the fulfillment of the wisher's desire comes at a cost, after each wish the skin shrinks a little bit and consumes the physical energy of the wisher. The Wild Ass's Skin is at once both...
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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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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...
17) Adieu
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The longish short story "Adieu" is an excerpt from Honore de Balzac's sweeping masterpiece The Human Comedy. A ghost story of sorts, this tragic tale recounts the blossoming romance of two lovers whose relationship is torn asunder by the vagaries of war. When they reunite by chance years later, there is nothing left to be salvaged. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely...
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The Physiology of Marriage (1829) is a book length essay by French writer Honoré de Balzac. Written from the point of view of an author who has overheard scandalous conversations between two women, The Physiology of Marriage is both a critique of the institution of marriage and a satirical attempt to scientifically explain the cause and frequency of marital infidelity. The essay was an early success for Balzac, gaining him a reputation as a talented...
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"Tu creación está incompleta. No has podido insuflar más que una porción de tu alma a tu querida obra. La antorcha de Prometeo se ha apagado más de una vez en tus manos, y muchos sitios de tu cuadro no han sido tocados por la llama celeste."
Pourbus y Nicolás Poussin visitan al pintor Frenhofer, quien desde hace 7 años se esfuerza por dibujar a una mujer imaginaria, llamada primero la Belle Noiseuse —una célebre cortesana— y luego, en...
20) Droll Stories
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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...