This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

The last Vendee - Or, the she-wolves of Machecoul. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

To tell the truth, there is more power than taste throughout the Histoire des Treize, and perhaps not very much less unreality than power. Balzac is very much better than…

Think. Think as hard as you can. Think so hard you can feel the veins swelling in your neck. Think so hard your cheeks turn red. Think so hard your…

The Deputy of Arcis is a novel by the renowned French writer Honore de Balzac. First published in 1847, the book tells the story of a fraudulent election in a…

Ursula (original French title Ursule Mirouet, 1842) forms one part of Scenes from Provincial Life, a series of novels-whose other major work is Eugenie Grandet -examining manners and morals in…

One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac’s great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath…