| 'Pere Goriot' is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, come to Paris from the provinces to make his fortune, who befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. |
1998
| Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In The ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella—never before published as a stand-alo....[more] |
1997
| Honore de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. |
1916
| The fjords of Norway create an enchanting setting for this story. Seraphita is an angel, both half-man and half-woman. The metaphysical plot involves two mortals who are in love with Seraphita, but the angel is in the last days of life and beyond earthly love. This novel is part of Balzac's La Comedie Humaine. |
1916
| The Comtesse de Montcornet told him of a young lady in the department of the Orne, a Mademoiselle Beatrix-Maximilienne-Rose de Casteran, the youngest daughter of the Marquis de Casteran, who wished to marry his two daughters without dowries in order to reserve his whole fortune for the Comte de Casteran, his son. |
2000
| Raise those great black eyes of yours, fixed on my opening sentence, and keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love. |
2000
| He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wife?s master, so he threw himself into a mechanical occupation and good living. |
1997
| Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others. The number of the Valesian tribe is, however, of no consequence to the present tale. All these chevaliers, among whom were doubtless some who were Valois as Louis XIV. was Bourbon, knew so little of one another that it was not advisable to speak to one abo....[more] |
1975
| The comedi humaine.. Scenes from private life. |
1967
| Little Latournelle was bold enough to marry this lady after she had attained the anti-matrimonial age of thirty-three, and what is more, he had a son by her? |
1971
| The comedi humaine.. Scenes from provincial life. |
1912
| The Second Ten Tales Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine |
1905
| ...The longest, without exception, of Balzac?s books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from the mixture of the Angouleme scenes of its first and third parts with the purely Parisian interest of Un Grand Homme de Province . It is hardly possible to exaggerate the gain in distinctness and lucidity of arrangement derived from putting Les Deux Poetes and Eve et David (a much better titl....[more] |
1995
| Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley |
1985
| Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels on the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Comedie Humaine was written from 1799 to1850 and is a multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society. This collection contains 95 novels, stories, and essays. A daughter of Eve is the 14th book in the Scenes from Pri....[more] |
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